Petroalgae Grows Algae In Fellesmere
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Since then, he said, the company has expanded from the lab to small-scale outdoor production with 35 of the company’s 100 employees.
Algae as paste. PetroAlgae workers will extract the oil
Tennant pointed to a series of vertical plastic tubes filled with clear water, light green water and darker green water, and bubbling with what he said was carbon-dioxide, the fuel for any plant.The tubes represented clean water, day-old algae and 3-day-old algae, he said.
PetroAlgae Vice President Fred Tennant says, after it sells the technology to alternate-fuel companies and they make enough oil to bring diesel prices down at filling stations.
“We’re working on a small scale of a commercial station, but big enough to show (clients) how they can take this and do it on 10,000 acres,” he said on a recent tour.
He has spent recent months flying to international board meetings to pitch the idea of growing algae — instead of corn or soybeans — to make biodiesel fuel and wean off the world’s dwindling supplies of fossil fuel.
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August 14th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Ita a pleasure to read such technique to form petrolalgae in fellesmere..
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