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![]() Have you heard about the recent study in Madrid? A team of scientists went on a quest to find the ultimate Bio-Fuel of the future. Do you think it was corn? not even close. as it turns out, Marine Phytoplankton tested as having 400 times more energy (pound for pound) than any other plant or organic substance tested. So maybe our cars and trucks will be running on neat Phytoplankton in the very near future.
Now just imagine what kind of energy it can provide to the human body? See for yourself here: www.marinephytoplankton.net |
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![]() Marine Phytoplankton May Save The Planet!
MADRID, Aug. 4, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- Spanish researchers say they have found a way to produce biofuel from Marine Phytoplankton which backers say could be operational by late 2007. Bernard Stroiazzo-Mougin, president of Biofuel Systems SL (BFS), the Spanish company developing the project, told IPS that "the system will produce massive amounts of biopetroleum from phytoplankton in a limited space and at a very moderate cost." BFS, with the support of the University of Alicante, "has designed a totally new system for producing biopetroleum -- not biodiesel -- by means of an energy converter," he explained. The new fuel will have all the advantages of petroleum, including the possibility of extracting the usual oil derivatives, "but without its disadvantages, because it will not contribute to CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions, but will in fact reduce them. It will not emit SO2 (sulphur dioxide) and there will be hardly any toxic by-products." The raw material for the new fuel is phytoplankton - tiny oceanic plants - that depend only on light and CO2 for their food. Among them are diatoms, a group of unicellular algae, also found in fresh water on land masses and on moist ground. Phytoplankton produce up to 90 per cent of the oxygen in the earth's atmosphere. According to Stroiazzo-Mougin, BFS's system will produce 400 times more oil than any other source of biofuel. For example, he said, "a surface area of 52,000 square kilometers can yield 95 million barrels of biopetroleum per day, in other words an amount equivalent to the entire world production of crude oil at present, and at a considerably lower price." The system, he added, will ensure a permanent, inexhaustible source of energy, which also uses up excess CO2, thus helping to curb the greenhouse effect and global warming, of which CO2 is one of the main causes. In order to replace 40 percent of the world's present consumption of petroleum with biodiesel from plant sources, the area of land currently under cultivation would have to be multiplied by three, which is "totally impossible and counterproductive for the global economy," Stroiazzo-Mougin said. BFS's new fuel will be similar to the fossil petroleum that was formed "millions of years ago under immense pressure and temperature and in the context of great seismic and volcanic activity, starting from the same plant elements that we will be using now (mainly phytoplankton)," he explained. It was "biodegradation of certain plant organic compounds (fatty acids and hydrocarbons) that gave rise to petroleum, and our system will be similar to that process," the president of BFS added. With respect to the surface areas needed to produce biofuels, he indicated that soy produces 50 cubic meters per square kilometer per year, colza (rape seed) produces 100 to 140 cubic meters, mustard yields 130 and palm oil 610 cubic meters, while algae produce 10,000 to 20,000 cubic meters of biofuel per square kilometer per year. Asked whether BFS will be offering the formula and processing system to other countries, whether they will forge alliances with other companies, or sell the patent, or whether it will all be free, Stroiazzo-Mougin replied that "all these aspects are being carefully studied, from the point of view of the commercial structure of the company." Stroiazzo-Mougin emphasized that the process would markedly lower CO2 emissions and that no other toxic substances would be released, as explained by the chemists and marine biologists who participated in the research project. End Of Report |
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