Well, my friend and I recently did some research on alternative fuel sources, and look what we found! I was amazied that more research had not been done on using biodiesel as a source of fuel. Here are some facts:
• Algae is the fastest growing plant in the world.
•Algae consumes 75% of the CO2 absorbed by plants
• Algae is not food; it will not raise food prices.
• Algae can be grown in conditions that are
unsuitable for other agriculture, such as polluted water or extremely dry climates.
• Algae can produce 15,000 gallons of biodiesel per acre, which is more than one hundred times the amount of other sources of biofuel.
• Algae is carbon neutral, so any carbon that is produced through the burning of algal biodiesel is reabsorbed by the algae being grown.
• Algal biodiesel can be stored wherever petroleum diesel is stored except for cement-lined tanks. This means that algal biodiesel can be sold at almost any gas station.
• One gallon of algal biodiesel has the effective energy value of 1.5 gallons of gasoline.
• Due to the government support of corn ethanol, the price of corn per bushel has risen from $4-$8. This has increased the cost of animal feed, which in turn increased the cost of eggs, milk, beef, turkey and pork.
• Algae can be grown in conditions that are unsuitable for other agriculture, such as polluted water or extremely dry climates. This is a huge contrast from other sources of biofuel such as palm and soy, which cause the destruction of rainforests due to the fact that it cannot be grown in other areas; the increase of palm production is causing the destruction of rainforests in southeast Asia, and the increase in soy production is causing destruction of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.
• One gallon of algal biodiesel contains about 127,662 kJ of energy, while one gallon of ethanol contains about 79,129 kJ of energy.
• One gallon of algal biodiesel has the effective energy value of 1.5 gallons of gasoline. One gallon of gasoline has the effective energy value of 1.5 gallons of corn ethanol. Therefore, one gallon of algal biodiesel has the effective energy of 2.25 gallons of ethanol.
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Rechargeable AA batteries.
Hundreds of them.
This is the future.
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I made a post about biodiesel in general a while back. You may find it interesting.
The fun thing about biodiesel in general is that any diesel engine can use it with little to no modification (older engines need their rubber parts replaced since biodiesel eats it away, but that's the only modification needed) because the diesel engine was originally designed to run on vegetable-based oil.
-- quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I didn't know so much about the algae aspect of biodiesel. I just wrote a climate crisis blog (http://www.progressiveu.org/153136-climate-crisis-and-you) but I only read about a little bit of third generation biodiesel and it didn't seem applicable at all.
At first I wanted to write and tell you about all of the bad things about normal biofuels and their destructive tendencies but my mouth is shut now. Hopefully we get more research into this kind of stuff. Well done man.