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