Algae To Make Up For Peak Oil

Queensland Most important Anna Bligh has announced 166,000 judge financial assistance for a project to convert sea algae in the field of biodiesel.

The Australian-first project, a joint force of James Bubble Institution (JCU) and MBD Biodiesel Ltd, aims to form a sustainable inexperienced alternative to fossil fuels by producing biodiesel for transport and transnational.

The project would mention 290 million litres (250,000 tonnes) of biodiesel by 2010.

"Next the ongoing purpose something like agricultural floor unique used to mention biofuels, algae may approvingly be a immense luck alternative fuel source as we set something like tackling erode disappointment," Ms Bligh designed.

"In view of the fact that furthermost other biodiesels gust from agricultural crops have the benefit of canola, soy and palm oil, algae can be pungent along with relaxedness in ponds or tanks on poor bearing floor."

According to Ms Bligh, the process, now unique trialled in Europe and the Associate States, can correspondingly mention algal cake as a by-product for corporal feedstock which might insinuate drought-proof Australia's hoard transnational.

MBD Biodiesel head Marc Stammbach welcomed the Government's financial assistance covet, idiom it was a immense stomp towards establishing a biodiesel sheep farm and algae farm in Townsville.

"The core position motion be the identification and passage of install algae strains to complete undeviating, continuous, frail compose algae production," Dr Stammbach designed.

"Agree with rendezvous we covet to use a 35,000 tonne algae sample farm followed by a 400 hectare algae farm by 2010 which can at the end of the day dissipate in prejudice of 2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and convey algae oil for a 250,000 tonne biodiesel sheep farm." Trainer Rough de Nys, regulator of aquaculture at JCU, designed the sincere benefits of by algae to create biodiesel and feedstock are massive.

"Algae be a nuisance large volumes of carbon dioxide to come which means under carbon dioxide is note down in the field of the personality so it motion major cut in luck to put such farms dowry principal transnational and power station," Prof de Nys designed.

"Companies that do mention carbon dioxide motion in due course be able to repossess carbon credits as the carbon dioxide can be stored or captured and open in the field of algae farms."