If you are talking about biodiesel use in northern climates you are correct: there are problems with gelling. However, you would have to consider that biodiesel made from different feedstocks has different properties. For example canola oil is thinner and so produces a thinner biodiesel than soy oil due to its shorter carbon chains which freeze/crystalize/gel at higher temperatures.

Algae strains can be cultivated with higher levels of the thinner oils for use in northern climates.

If you are talking about biodiesel use in northern climates you are correct: there are problems with gelling. However, you would have to consider that biodiesel made from different feedstocks has different properties. For example canola oil is thinner and so produces a thinner biodiesel than soy oil due to its shorter carbon chains which freeze/crystalize/gel at higher temperatures.

Algae strains can be cultivated with higher levels of the thinner oils for use in northern climates.

There is plenty of oil, gas & coal on the planet; and it’s cheap to produce. But producers only let us pEEk at a portion of the global glut of oil, gas & coal.

Have you noticed that oil & gas deposits act as a magnet for wars, terrorism & chaos (e.g., Nigeria, Iraq, Iran, Darfur, Columbia, Falklands, etc., etc.)? The quantity of UN-PROVEN reserves in those areas is HUGE. “Peak Oil,” my gas!

The big Hydrocarbon Boys & Girls have artificially suppressed & prevented exploration, drilling, mining, refining, transport & marketing (now with disguises of environmentalism & Global Farting). This maintains Peak Pricing. Sell less. Charge more. (A lot more.)

‘Peak Pricing’ is a function of big Hydrocarbon Boys & Girls running scared. Algae-based & other biofuels are growing in market potential — and may be cheap.

However, the real ‘Killer App’ for ‘Peak Pricing’ may be the Tesla-type ‘New Energy’ technologies (e.g., so-called ‘Zero Point Energy,’ which may be a misnomer that misleads the scientists & funders RE-developing these quasi-simple energy technologies).

As biofuels & other energy tech cheaply come to market, big Hydrocarbon Boys & Girls exploit current energy oligopolies to continue Peak Pricing. Quasi-scientific, neo-Malthusian, global-farting alarmists semi-wittingly assist the big, legally-price-gouging hydrocarbon producers in their Peak Pricing exploits.

Aqua-Flow & other biofuels companies do us a favor by mounting market-based attacks on Peak Pricing. We may want to fund & pique these bio-fuels in the gas.

There is plenty of oil, gas & coal on the planet; and it’s cheap to produce. But producers only let us pEEk at a portion of the global glut of oil, gas & coal.

Have you noticed that oil & gas deposits act as a magnet for wars, terrorism & chaos (e.g., Nigeria, Iraq, Iran, Darfur, Columbia, Falklands, etc., etc.)? The quantity of UN-PROVEN reserves in those areas is HUGE. “Peak Oil,” my gas!

The big Hydrocarbon Boys & Girls have artificially suppressed & prevented exploration, drilling, mining, refining, transport & marketing (now with disguises of environmentalism & Global Farting). This maintains Peak Pricing. Sell less. Charge more. (A lot more.)

‘Peak Pricing’ is a function of big Hydrocarbon Boys & Girls running scared. Algae-based & other biofuels are growing in market potential — and may be cheap.

However, the real ‘Killer App’ for ‘Peak Pricing’ may be the Tesla-type ‘New Energy’ technologies (e.g., so-called ‘Zero Point Energy,’ which may be a misnomer that misleads the scientists & funders RE-developing these quasi-simple energy technologies).

As biofuels & other energy tech cheaply come to market, big Hydrocarbon Boys & Girls exploit current energy oligopolies to continue Peak Pricing. Quasi-scientific, neo-Malthusian, global-farting alarmists semi-wittingly assist the big, legally-price-gouging hydrocarbon producers in their Peak Pricing exploits.

Aqua-Flow & other biofuels companies do us a favor by mounting market-based attacks on Peak Pricing. We may want to fund & pique these bio-fuels in the gas.

So when Aquaflow posts their crude algae oil production (and more importantly their certified processing costs) below $0.75/gallon – or even a biodiesel below $3.00/gal – they’ll make me a believer in their not so unusual processes (compared to all the other algae oil developers). Without actual costs being reported… yawn, it’s just another day in the biofuel investor seeking PR world.

So when Aquaflow posts their crude algae oil production (and more importantly their certified processing costs) below $0.75/gallon – or even a biodiesel below $3.00/gal – they’ll make me a believer in their not so unusual processes (compared to all the other algae oil developers). Without actual costs being reported… yawn, it’s just another day in the biofuel investor seeking PR world.

Go check out the 6 to 10 inch layer of oily muck on the sea floor off the mouth of the Mississippi in the Gulf. The result of a huge algae bloom.

Where do you think oil and coal comes from, anyway? (Well, if you believe the Russian, oil comes from calcium carbonate and iron, but I digress…)

Go check out the 6 to 10 inch layer of oily muck on the sea floor off the mouth of the Mississippi in the Gulf. The result of a huge algae bloom.

Where do you think oil and coal comes from, anyway? (Well, if you believe the Russian, oil comes from calcium carbonate and iron, but I digress…)