Spanish firm claims it can make oil from plankton

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TimBikes @ Jul 21 2006, 04:29 PM) [snapback]290202[/snapback]</div>

NEWS RELEASE

Polish Firm claims it can make Gasoline from Oil...Polish people openly cheer in the streets!


(My apologies to any Poles)



Ok, on a more serious note...I hope the article is true! It sounds pretty amazing and would give even more meaning to "Green" energy.

 

Not any time soon.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TimBikes @ Jul 21 2006, 04:29 PM) [snapback]290202[/snapback]</div>

Plankton don't have any scales. But this whole project smells fishy to me. Just for the halibut, try running your car on cod liver oil. It sure used to make me run........

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TimBikes @ Jul 21 2006, 07:29 PM) [snapback]290202[/snapback]</div>

Yes, it is scaleable to enormous production levels. The US Aquatic Species Program concluded that it could easily replace crude oil use for transportation if cultured in a small area of the desert. The amount of oil produced per acre per year for various plants are as follows:

Soybean - 80 gallons
Rapeseed - 100 gallons
Palm oil - 500 gallons
Algae (plankton) - 10,000 gallons

Because of this great yield, some companies are already suggesting that algae-oil could cost as little as $15 per barrel (crude oil is $70 per barrel, palm oil is $50 per barrel).

 

Remember cold fusion?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(J.Wilkie @ Jul 24 2006, 01:29 PM) [snapback]291569[/snapback]</div>

Is not that the new Ford car?

Seriously \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(J.Wilkie @ Jul 24 2006, 04:29 PM) [snapback]291569[/snapback]</div>

Nobody managed to prove cold fusion worked. Lots of groups, including the US Department of Energy, have proved that algae to oil works. Oh, and nature herself too, as plankton is where all the crude oil came from originally.