Build your own by following these instructions. As the guy with the plastic shoes points out, algae has several benefits over corn based biofuel. For one it doesn’t use agricultural land, is fast growing, and you can use co2 from sources like burning bio-mass, and if you have to coal or oil or gas based plants.
I prefer the Bio-mass solution, if you are burning farm waste in a plant that is serving as a load balance plant on your new smart grid (a man can dream), you can then use the co2 produced from burning that waste to produce biofuel with algae. In this way you have an energy gird predominantly comprised of solar,wind and geothermal, with bio-mass burning and a smart grid to help balance out the natural variation in these energy sources.
You would have bio-mass burning plants surrounded by acres and acres of farm land, and these plants would produce energy and fuel, and if you used the remnants of the burning to produce something else (or maybe just bury it) it could be a carbon neutral, or negative way to make energy.
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Nice short explanation… great visual.
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Garry G
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Those damns burners !
Of course, you can burn that biomass and then try to “capture” the CO2 (with poor efficiency).
But if you don’t burn it in the first place, but instead pyrolyse it, you get biochar to amend the soil + energy to feed into the grid.
You then can use the atmospheric CO2, or even capture methanization plants’s CO2 (they produce mainly CH4 + CO2) to feed your algaes.
You see many possibilities can live together, and one can choose the more appropriate or a combination, dependaing on its need and ressources.