Man creates homemade biodiesel from algae

Well I hope he has the patent on his methods of making his own brew.

Look on current.com for more about algae being used for fuel

Yes, let's get that man venture capital funding!

...wait...what...we have no funds due to the financial crisis?

What do you mean all our money was tied up in Lehman Brothers?!?!? Noooooo!

...and the ExxonMobil will be knocking on his door in 3...2...1.

Forget the bong, let's get a medical crack pipe. It doesn't matter anyway. It is too late. The world will end in the year 2000. There is this thing called the Y2K bug that will end all times! Then the world is going to overheat and end again shortly after that. It all started at the end of the last ice age. It is a conspiracy and Bush is behind it! Capitalism is bad and only bad people try to get ahead in life....... unless it is me that is wealthy. Pass another doobie dude. If we smoke a fatty, be gay, vote democrat, hold hands and sing kum ba yah the world's problems will just vanish. NO MOM! SHUT UP! I don't have to get my own place! The basement is MINE! I'm only 47! Now go make me a sandwich, I got the munchies!

this explains in a nutshell why this hasn't hit the mass markets.

like using marijuana for health reasons, algae can be grown independently. thus its impossible to make money off of it. Thus we won't see it in the US for a long time

Will he open this process up for the rest of the homebrewers? I could def. get away with growing it on my porch and processing the oil into B100 at my friend's house.

Awesome. Congrats to him.

But I don't think other companies were trying hard enough or care to do this.....there are bigger things at play.

Hopefully he keeps all his stuff secure so that there's not a "fire" or something that destroys his hard work.

lol, funny comments guys

He had just better not make more than $250,000 off of his idea. We can't have that.

This is a great possibility for the future. One issue with this type of algae production is that it requires fresh water, a resource that is becoming more and more scarce.

We need to develop more ways to produce our own energy as individuals, so we can cut our dependence on corporations and governments. But we also need to drastically reduce the use.

This is nothing new because this was already done. But it's a good idea to spread the word because many usually forget. I applaud him for his work and hope that many others recognize it.

We need to see more of this. I hope they get the funding they need.

patent the process now!

i really hope they get funding.

Green is beautiful. Maybe there is hope for this planet afterall. Now, if we can just get American car makers to make cars we can run efficiently...

That is pretty cool. I wonder exactly how much algae it would take to make "a few liters [of] oil a day."

If he can do it in his basement
It's probably already been done
How much technology is suppressed
Is there even really an energy crisis?

Best part of this is, as I understand it, it is inherently carbon-neutral. All the carbon you release by burning your algae-gas was originally pulled out of the air by photosynthesis. Wicked!

They can come to my house, and scrape my aquariums for algae. I know I've got plenty!!!