Would like to hear from all of you that care to post why this scientific/technological advancement is not being used for all our benefit? Very sensible approach to it

by StoneWall 3 Replies latest social current

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  StoneWall

  a friend a while back showed me this video and we were discussing it at length about all the potential benefits to the

  economy of each family as well as to solving most of the demands for energy of every country willing to use it.

  And you talk about earth friendly, I would be hard pressed to find anything that would be any easier on the enviroment.

  Anyways I would appreciate any and all feedback from any of you whether it be postive or negative on this.

  List any pro's or con's that you can see.

  According to the research I've seen on this, it could very well be head and shoulders above the rest as far as alternative

  energy sources.

  Notice the point in the video too about where the researcher/scientist says one acre of corn yields about 18 gallons of

  oil, one acre of palm yields roughly 700-800 gallons of oil, yet one acre of this vertigro yields up to 20,000 gallons of oil.

  The way it is brought about and presented makes absolute sense to me. This is the same video that was on CNN not

  long ago. THe CNN video quality was not as good so I'm going to try and post this from another website.

  http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1629419/vertigro_creates_fuel_from_algae/
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  StoneWall

  I couldn't get the video to embed but the link does work at bottom of my initial post.
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  drwtsn32

  Looks impressive. For something like this to be used, it first needs to prove itself. Also all of the costs involved need to be calculated to see if it makes financial sense. Fossil fuels have high energy density and relatively low costs, so it's hard for competing alternative energy sources to take hold. (Of course that will change once fossil fuels become scarce and price skyrockets.)

  How much does a closed system like that cost to purchase, install, and maintain? What sort of costs must be paid to the company that developed this? How difficult is it to extract the oil from the algae? What is the energy density of the oil?

  For alternative fuel sources to be viable, the total cost needs to be comparable (or less) than current competing energy sources.
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  StoneWall

  drwtsn32 I appreciate your feedback.

  Very reasonable questions you asked as well. I'm still looking into this system but on a cost analysis basis it sure looks

  promising on that front as well. I'm looking over their main website to further answer many of my questions as well as

  some that you have stated.

  Just on viewing the video and some of their online pics I can see some of the cost would have to be very manageable

  to the majority of people (such as putting up a greenhouse and most of the piping that I saw in there appears to be

  just schedule 40 PVC that you can easily get at Home Depot or Lowe's etc.)

  The one thing I can't answer as of now is how much is the cost of the closed vertical system itself. If it wasn't too

  overly priced I can see where in one or two years time if you could yield 20,000 gallons of your own biodiesel for personal

  use as well as to share/sell where you could re-coup all your operating and start-up cost.

  I'll definetly be checking more into this.

  But even on a more country wide setting if there calculations are correct, he stated that a land area as small as just

  ten percent of the state of new Mexico would supply all the energy needs of the U.S.A. That in and of itself would be

  encourging news to break us off our dependency of foreign crude oil. And the enviromental benefits you can't even put

  a price tag on that. As stated on their homepage 90 percent of the algae is from assimilated carbon dioxide. With those

  (greenhouse affect) gases being neutralized it would have to help the health of everyone on the planet.

  Anyways to anyone else that may be fascinated by this technology I'll post their main webite link at the bottom of

  this post. Keep those comments, ideas,suggestions rolling in because I'm trying to get all the info I can before deciding

  if I want to invest in this.

  Their main page is http://www.valcent.net/s/Ecotech.asp?ReportID=182039