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Originally Posted by blaSSt
WOW! My estimates ended up not too far off, but a little high!
In my example above I was making 17,000 b.o.e. or 714,000 gallons. By this source
a minimum of 71.4 acres of land is required.
I used 24 football fields. At 1.93 acres per football field I estimated 46.3 acres.  (Must work to only 4" deep  silly me) |
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Originally Posted by DGthe3
It will take alot of land, but according to this one article algea gives yeilds of up to 10 000 gallons/acre. Even at half that, its an awful lot compared to some sources of biofuel. Here is an article where they say that, and it uses a brewery as the CO2 source: Algae+brewery=biofuel article
And here is the video that I saw where I first heard about this type of thing Algae Power |
I will donate 80 acres in West Texas...., well donate
might not be the word. But I will trade it for a few Camaros
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Originally Posted by TFord
jumping in on the A$$ end of things....but this (if they can pull it off) would be the best thing since sliced bread! Being in the military the most important thing would be not hearing the "protecting national intrests" line. When we all know they mean oil! I hope this works our economy needs it, and we need to put money in our own economy.
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