Jack! We DO! But that fat from polar bears is used to make the fuel that
is used in model airplanes flown only n Alaska and Northern Canada. I
don't think the polar bears in Russia have been affected yet.
mayf
NT788@comcast.net wrote:
>Why don't we make fuel with all the fat from polar bears that have died from 2
>stroke model airplane exhaust? Jack
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>From: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>
>
>
>>Yep, algae is a great producer of bio diesel. However, there were a few
>>significant details missing, lol.. Like this takes the equivalent of 200
>>acres to produce he 100,000 gallons per YEAR It also need carbon dioxide
>>as well. Yeah we have lots of that right now but putting a facility in
>>th emiddl eof nowhere requires yo have some extracion methods for CO2 to
>>feed to the algae. Just supposing, bu if you wanted to replace all the
>>petro fuels with this then you woul dneed approximately 731,000 acre
>>equivalents. And did we notice how the extraction is done? Nope becaus
>>eit is not as easy to do as made to sound. That takes a fair amount of
>>energy itslf as I understand it. You don't just throw a wad of it into
>>the tank of the truck. I believer it has to be dried first, then crushed
>>and the oils separated form the left overs and then processed. Will it
>>work, You betcha! I saw a proram the other evening regarding a power
>>plant in partnership with an algae company doing similar except that
>>they were capturing the co2 from the stacks to feed the algae and they
>>also used bio reactors which were individual grow tanks, similar to this.
>>
>>I hope this happens but believe me, diesel won't come back down in
>>price. How you gonna get them back on the farm when they been to the
>>city, lol...
>>
>>Good catch, I like that people are thinking out of the box..
>>
>>mayf
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