Sapphire's Superior Strain Of Algae
Jim Lane
Thanksgiving approaches and holiday baking looms – a week when family recipes are swapped and downloaded in huge volumes. In the business of biofuels, one of the more elusive recipes is the one for making commercial-scale, affordable algae as a platform for conversion to biofuels.
But there’s not too much mystery to it. By now, practically everyone in biofuels knows the basic recipe for making a gallon of algal fuel from an open pond environment. As great cooks advise, the potential is in the ingredients, but the flavor is in the execution.
Ingredients:
One 320 ml beaker containing “secret sauce” – a superior strain of algae in solution
1500 gallons of water (recyclable)
45 pounds of CO2
Trace amounts of other nutrients, including iron and copper
Directions:
Add all ingredients to water
Stir continuously, and bake in sunlight until algae reaches 0.2 percent concentrations, then harvest continuously.
Remove water, extract oil, recycle 99.8% of water
Burn remnant biomass for power, or sell as protein – your choice
