First Algae Biodiesel Plant Goes Online: April 1, 2008
PetroSun won’t be making fuel immediately, but plans on either building or acquiring ethanol and biodiesel production plants. They’ve conveniently located themselves in an area accessible by barge, which should make fuel distribution a snap.
An aerial view (Google maps) of the algae farms can be seen here.
This is NOT an April Fool’s joke! See the press release here.
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This is awesome news! Algae for oil can be so great in so many ways. Now we just need to turbo diesel everything and have some performance vehicles that run off almost carbon-neutral fuel.
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How could this be the first biodiesel plant? I heard the other day there was this new gas station downtown that sold biodiesel.
Why doesn’t a company just figure out a way to filter and collect the algae that is overabundant at the mouth of the Mississippi, rather than further salinizing inland soils with seawater ponds?
So how about some details?
What is its capacity…how much per gallon?
Details we need details!
Really? On APRIL FOOLS DAY? Where can I buy stock???
“Seems to have firured it out? More like “Claims to have figured it out.” I have found no evidence that they have developed any technology for the purpose.
Algae biofuels look to be a promising technology for the future.
Petro Sun? Well…. My point is that instead of having another oil co. who is is in partnership with the government. We should all learn to make our own small batch biodiesel and save the 3-4 dollars a gallon they will charge us for a product that maybe .. what .25$ to .50$ a gallon! lets have a real revolution!