Posts Tagged ‘Diatoms’

Millions of dollars have been spent on the quest for algae jet fuel. Look at the headlines Bill Gates to Exxon to our own federal government through DARPA are heavily invested.

Our countries President Obama is also just as green as Al Gore on alternative energy and the jobs the industry is creating. Bio Pioneers in green companies have developed algae biodiesel production and algae oil harvesting systems and equipment for growing algae and harvesting the algae in a very efficient manner for use in algae biofuels such as algae jet fuel.

Algae is plentiful and most of it is free, companies like CCA have created a dry process algae jetfuel from raw algae cake, not the oil. It is a unique approach to a global industry that contains military & commercial applications.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has identified approximately 300 species of algae, as varied as the diatoms (genera Amphora, Cymbella, Nitzschia) and green algae (genera Chlorella in particular) as potentially good sources of oil from algae. Diatoms, or Bacillariophytes, are unicellular, microscopic algae. These organisms are widespread in salt water where they constitute the largest portion of phytoplankton biomass. There exist approximately 100,000 known species around the world. More than 400 new specimens are described each year.

Algae Fuels will have an important role to play in renewable fuel plans for all countries around the world.

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