Algae for Fuel - a QUEST Nebraska Feature

With growing pressure on the word's gas supply, University of Nebraska biologist George Oyler is working with researchers in California and New Mexico on a fuel alternative -- algae for fuel. Microscopic algae is grown in labs, then cultivated like a farm crop in ponds in New Mexico to turn the oil within aquatic algae into "green crude" -- which can be refined just like crude oil...into gas for cars, trucks, and planes. For more information, visit quest.netnebras....

[@kasimirb5155]

If algae oil is burnt, what is the output? Does it make any difference for the CO2 footprint?

[@pteechka1]

It extracts co2 while growing, and releases it when burning. So not carbon free but carbon neutral (ideally)

[@campbellreavis8258]

to grow algae at home do you need salt water?

[@masterpalladin]

depends on the species , theres fresh and salt water strains

[@rajendrasingh-cj5rf]

How can remove oil from algea.. I mean prosses

[@Barskor1]

You can use a blender you can boil you can put it in a vacuum chamber and heat it a bit one of those should be easy for you.