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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject: Aquaflow makes crucial algae biofuel breakthroughs
Aquaflow makes crucial algae biofuel breakthroughs
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Two further major breakthroughs have been achieved by Blenheim-based Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation which has been working on world-leading technology to convert wild algae to biofuel.
“We have now achieved commercial scale continuous harvesting of tonnes of wild algae at the Marlborough oxidation ponds so we can take the step up to commercial scale production of biocrude,” says Aquaflow chairman, Barrie Leay.
“We have also commissioned our newly built proprietary biorefinery and made our first machine run. We expect to make further announcements in that regard in the next few months. These are major steps forward for us and we expect to be able to produce commercial quantities of biocrude within the next few months,” he explains.
These breakthroughs follow the world-first proof of concept biodiesel, produced from algae, and demonstrated by Aquaflow when the Minister of Energy; Hon. David Parker, drove an unmodified standard Land Rover along the Wellington Motorway in December 2006, powered by Aquaflow biodiesel.
“An extraordinarily beneficial by-product of the Aquaflow process is potentially releasing a clean water resource of millions of litres of clean water - to be recycled and available for use in irrigation, industrial washing, cooling, and so on.”
Aquaflow’s technology has already been licensed for much of Asia, through Aquaflow’s 20% cornerstone shareholder PurePowerAsia.
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:22 am Post subject: Re: Aquaflow makes crucial algae biofuel breakthroughs
A lot of advantages in using wild algae instead of selected strains. However the big disadvantage is yield. Typical fat content in wild algae 5% to 10% (as oppose to 50% to 70% for bio-fuel algae). That means a lot of fertilizer and processing for not much oil.
Perhaps there's possibilities in conjunction with a sewage treatment plant, but not as they've proposed it here. _________________ Angry yet?
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:15 pm Post subject: Re: Aquaflow makes crucial algae biofuel breakthroughs
I would not be surprised, if after abandoning the whole enterprise of mass automobility that some of this biofuel technology gets diverted to mass producing calorie rich edible oils for an oversized starving humanity. Sort of a last step before the soylent green factories. _________________ The battle to preserve our lifestyle has already been lost. The battle to preserve our lives is just beginning.
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:00 am Post subject: Re: Aquaflow makes crucial algae biofuel breakthroughs
NeoPeasant wrote:
I would not be surprised, if after abandoning the whole enterprise of mass automobility that some of this biofuel technology gets diverted to mass producing calorie rich edible oils for an oversized starving humanity. Sort of a last step before the soylent green factories.
A little Malthusian? You know this is kinda an old speech Its been around for a few hundred years and presently production per capita of food is pretty much at an all time high... I agree that the population is at present growth levels will likely begin to strain growth and technology but there tends to be a natural leveling... historically we have always been able to keep pace... just because the future looks bleak isn't reason to panic in the eye of history the future has looked far worse and turned out far better than anyone would have ever expected... We just have to do what we can and hope its enough... in the end it doesn't really matter all that much
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 2:55 am Post subject: Re: Aquaflow makes crucial algae biofuel breakthroughs
elear2787 wrote:
A little Malthusian? You know this is kinda an old speech Its been around for a few hundred years and presently production per capita of food is pretty much at an all time high...
Okay, we're starting to get his stuff again. Please provide links to peer-reviewed documents or news articles to support the above claim.
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I agree that the population is at present growth levels will likely begin to strain growth and technology but there tends to be a natural leveling...
historically we have always been able to keep pace... just because the future looks bleak isn't reason to panic in the eye of history the future has looked far worse and turned out far better than anyone would have ever expected... We just have to do what we can and hope its enough... in the end it doesn't really matter all that much
Yes but we had plentiful and cheap oil to help us reach that bright future. Now it's in decline. Now we have to find a way to make renewables supercede and entirely replace our oil-based economies and infrastructure globally, while the raw materials for manuafacture and many of the components, transportation, maintenance, etc. are becoming more scarce. And yes, it doesn't matter in the end because some day, we all die.
What matters is that there are others to carry on your bloodline. Much more important than that is that we ensure that they have the best possible future.
That future is not one where we have an overpopulated, polluted, orwellian world where our descendants will still spend over half of of their lives working for the man, one quarter sleeping and another quarter actually living. _________________ "That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top, well I say, <censored by peakoil.com> floats"
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