{"id":747,"date":"2008-12-11T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=747"},"modified":"2008-12-11T06:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T06:04:00","slug":"algae-to-methanol-to-fuel-cells-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/algae-to-methanol-to-fuel-cells-to.html","title":{"rendered":"Algae to Methanol to Fuel Cells to Electricity and Back to Algae!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Was going through an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshpatents.com\/Energy-production-systems-and-methods-dt20081030ptan20080268302.php?type=claims\">interesting patent filing<\/a> when I came across this paragraph: &#8220;A method of cultivating an algae, comprising: introducing oxygen produced by the algae into a hydrogen fuel cell assembly; introducing methanol produced by the gasification of an algae pulp of the algae into the hydrogen fuel assembly; processing the oxygen and the methanol in the hydrogen fuel cell assembly to produce carbon dioxide and water; and cultivating the algae with the carbon dioxide and the water.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So that appears like a neat little idea &#8211; grow algae and get oxygen during its growth, take the algae, gasify it to get methanol, use the methanol in a direct methanol fuel cell to get electricity, CO2 and water, and send the CO2 and water back again for algae growth. Interesting, not sure about the economics though.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. Was going through an interesting patent filing when I came across this paragraph: &#8220;A method of cultivating an algae, comprising: introducing oxygen produced by the algae into a hydrogen fuel cell assembly; introducing methanol produced by the gasification of an algae pulp of the algae into the hydrogen fuel assembly; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-cultivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}