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Originally Posted by DGthe3
It will take alot of land, but according to this one article algea gives yeilds of up to 10 000 gallons/acre. Even at half that, its an awful lot compared to some sources of biofuel. Here is an article where they say that, and it uses a brewery as the CO2 source: Algae+brewery=biofuel article
And here is the video that I saw where I first heard about this type of thing Algae Power |
WOW! My estimates ended up not too far off, but a little high!
In my example above I was making 17,000 b.o.e. or 714,000 gallons. By this source
a minimum of 71.4 acres of land is required.
I used 24 football fields. At 1.93 acres per football field I estimated 46.3 acres.
(Must work to only 4" deep
silly me)