Algae - natures answer to fossil fuels and plastics!!

Algae has 2 main pros against normals crops for biofuel: - you can make a farm almost everywhere, no need fertile soil, just sun and water - they do not need freshwater, recirculating sea salt water, produces best result.

Also worth mentioning it’s potential for ‘bioremediation’ of wastewater effluents from industry and agriculture, especially removal of fertilizer runoff-likely the culprit for those Florida red tides you mentioned.

There's a local company here in Maine that is doing the algae grow-sink process . They just expanded their operation to include a facility in my hometown. Exciting stuff!

Just what I was waiting for, I look forward to your videos on my Sundays

It is great to hear about a Carbon Capture system that for once does not create more CO2 than they can recover from the atmosphere, or result in more oil extration.

Mate your ability to catch new ideas and start ups then bring the information to us truely astounds me! Thanks for all yr hard work🌞

I’ve been trying to eat more seaweed ever since reading about how quickly it grows and how nutritious it is. I really think it’s going to become a staple of many of our diets in the future in order to reduce the emissions of our food.

In 2010-11 I worked on the process engineering design of an algae biofuel project. Producing fuel at that time was a non-starter as the ability to get enough sunlight into a mass that would produce any significant amount of algal oil was near impossible. The people who had worked on an algal strain for a decade tried open circulating channels, plastic tubes and a number of other ways to get light into dense slurries of their specially selected algae. We finally convinced them to look at using the algae to produce edible oil and a high protein flour substitute from the spent algae. Both had excellent properties for high value food use. The problem is that even after genetic modification they just aren't productive enough.

This is so the way to go, you can double the biomass in about 5 days

Another great video Dave. 👍 We are still working on our modular system to cultivate algae using the emissions from biomass boilers and waste water, with nutrients, from a milk processing plant. The algae can then be dried using the heat from the 1.5 MW of biomass boiler or heat from the 1MW GSHP already installed on site. The info re Asparagopsis taxiformis is excellent information which we will now explore further. When we get the process right then modular system could be deployed onto farms with livestock and biomass boilers so farmers could cultivate their own algae feed additive for their livestock.

Also it's the best source for omega 3 DHA and EPA, the ones that we need desperetaly, fish oils gets oxidized quickly, and feeding animals with this would give them omega 3. And also this can be used for recycling water, there are low technology ponds that can do this now with aquatic plants, but if we add algae it could make it faster.

Biofuels for aviation seem one of the best uses as Jet Turbines are not picky about what they burn (unlike gas and diesel engines) as long as they don't freeze at very cold temperatures. However as long as they cost more than fossil jet fuel, won't get used unless forced to.

Seaweed has been harvested in the west of Ireland as a feed supplement for generations, but modern farming has also caused algae blooms in rivers from nitrogen run off, so it's not all good news.

This is a welcomed change, I watched this video ending with a feeling of hope instead of dredd.

The information presented on this video is truly awesome and so was it's presentation!! Amazing content

So pleased you have rested this. I’ve been optimistic about Algae and Kelp for 15years plus. I feel nature / biology has great strength to be harnessed. Looking forward to seeing commercial solutions

Really enjoyed listening to your interview on spark podcast 🙏🏾

Very good video, as always. My compliments. Keep up the good work 👍

This is what I've been dreaming about for 20 years. I'm certain that biofuel from algae should be a major success towards a green energy future. If We put as much effort into this as fusion then it would be solved already.

Algae don't just grow from sunlight (and love or good intentions), they also need a tremendous amount of N en P: so if you really want to grow them on a large scale it needs a lot of fertilizer. Albeit it will be probably more N efficient than animal production but less financial efficient.