Blue Oil?

[grizzaholic]

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ALICANTE, Spain (AFP) – In a forest of tubes eight metres high in eastern Spain scientists hope they have found the fuel of tomorrow: bio-oil produced with algae mixed with carbon dioxide from a factory.
Almost 400 of the green tubes, filled with millions of microscopic algae, cover a plain near the city of Alicante, next to a cement works from which the C02 is captured and transported via a pipeline to the "blue petroleum" factory.

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"In a unit that covers 50 square kilometres, which is not something enormous, in barren regions of southern Spain, we could produce about 1.25 million barrels per day," or almost as much as the daily export of oil from Iraq, he said.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

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ALICANTE, Spain (AFP) – In a forest of tubes eight metres high in eastern Spain scientists hope they have found the fuel of tomorrow: bio-oil produced with algae mixed with carbon dioxide from a factory.
Almost 400 of the green tubes, filled with millions of microscopic algae, cover a plain near the city of Alicante, next to a cement works from which the C02 is captured and transported via a pipeline to the "blue petroleum" factory.

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"In a unit that covers 50 square kilometres, which is not something enormous, in barren regions of southern Spain, we could produce about 1.25 million barrels per day," or almost as much as the daily export of oil from Iraq, he said.

there's a guy in minnesota doing that - or something like that... my candidates have toured his facility for a few years... algae as a source for bio-diesel

[houndawg]

Spent New Year's Eve of '75 on a ferry from Alicante to Ibiza.

[93henfan]

I've followed the algae biodiesel efforts a little bit. The greatest challenge is obviously going to be volume of production. It could be done, but you're going to have to build massive plants out in the desert southwest. We're talking square miles of area needed for sufficient sun exposure to even remotely produce a volume that would make an impact on our energy demand.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

I've followed the algae biodiesel efforts a little bit. The greatest challenge is obviously going to be volume of production. It could be done, but you're going to have to build massive plants out in the desert southwest. We're talking square miles of area needed for sufficient sun exposure to even remotely produce a volume that would make an impact on our energy demand.

in MN we're looking at native prairie grass - results early are promising - so too are the results from peat bogs (which we have in spades)