REG Announces Commercialization of Technology for Algae-based Fuel

[JohnWxy]

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53387


Renewable Energy Group announced that it has scalable commercialization technology capable of refining and producing large volumes of high quality algae biodiesel.
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REG said that it has implemented technology to refine the oil from a variety of algae strains and produce algae biodiesel exceeding ASTM standards. The company also said that i has pre-treated and produced high quality algae biodiesel at the pilot scale level with results that will lead to commercial production. With available feedstocks and additional algae oil production partners, REG says that is can augment current pre-treatment and production of algae biodiesel in continually increasing volumes as part of their current continuous-flow, commercial-scale process technology.

With these scalability options, REG is planning to initiate additional partnerships for commercial-scale production of algae biodiesel at volumes comparable to those from other vegetable and animal feedstocks now in use, said COO Daniel Oh, who oversees technology and research and development programs for the company.

“Commercial demonstration of algae biodiesel at this level is a major step forward for the industry,” Oh said. “By defining the processing parameters for larger volumes of algae oil, we can process the algae oil using REG’s commercial scale production technology like any other feedstock out there today.”

[OmahaBlueDog]

1. How much cost to get a usable gallon of biodiesel?

This is the question.

If true, this is very promising.

[NMDemDist2]

3. the local folks around here are saying they'll have it available this winter

at around $2 a gallon

:shrug:

[NNadir]

2. We'll just throw this in with Iogen's "commercialization" of cellulosic ethanol.

And "Changing World's" "commercialization" of turkey guts to crude oil.

Meanwhile on planet called "Earth," a recent symposium discussed something called science about about the vast biofuels disaster.

I attended some of the sessions. Many people were talking about daja vu all over again.

http://oasys2.confex.com/acs/236nm/techprogram/

There seems to be some disagreement in a group of people called "scientists" about the wisdom of the soil strip mining programs being hyped by people who know no science whatsover.

[OmahaBlueDog]

4. If you weren't so "condescending", I might be "interested" in your counterargument

As it is, you come of as a "tool"

Peace be with you.

[NNadir]

5. If you weren't so oblivious to science, I might be less contemptuous of discussing the subject

with you.

But I'm not. It would be a complete waste of time.

[ElectricGrid]

6. You are alot like the guy who said man could never fly..

just look at the science of it. It took 100's of folks years to figure it out but they did figure it out. The nut will be cracked it's just a matter of when. That applies to Solar, bio, ect. Your radical opposition to anything non-nuke makes your credibility zero.

[GliderGuider]

7. The problem is, you don't have hundreds of years to crack this nut.

You have ten. In that time you will need to replace between 5 and 10 millions barrels of oil per day. And that means that every year you will need to add 1 million barrels per day of production. 42 million gallons per day. 15 billion gallons of additional production every year.

The ten year time frame pretty much rules out significant electrification of personal transportation (no matter what the source of the electricity), and cellulosic ethanol, and turkey-guts-to-diesel, and shale-to-liquids. I even have my doubts about pond-scum-to-diesel.

If you do not crack this nut within ten years, the game is over -- a least insofar as the USA remaining a world industrial power is concerned.

The scale and time frame of the problem is the killer.