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Here is some info on a new private company that says it can make gas.
It would be nice if this works out, but they are just in the testing phase now.
- Stephen
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Joule Unlimited
Joule Unlimited, formerly known as Joule Biotechnologies, [1] is a producer of alternative energy technologies based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their principal development is termed helioculture, a process that generates hydrocarbon-based fuel by combining non-fresh water, nutrients, photosynthetic organisms, carbon dioxide, and sunlight. The company plans to start building a facility that will be able to produce more than 20,000 gallons of fuel per acre per year (19,000 m3/km2·a) starting in 2011.[2]
Helioculture uses photosynthetic organisms, but is otherwise distinct from the process that makes fuel from algae. Oils made from algae usually have to be refined into fuel following a batch process, but helioculture produces fuel directly - either ethanol or hydrocarbons - that do not need refining.
Joule Unlimited - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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March 1, 2011
Massachusetts firm claims it can grow fuel
Recovering the fuel is where Joule could find significant problems, said Pienkos, the NREL scientist, who is also principal investigator on a Department of Energy-funded project with Algenol, a Joule competitor that makes ethanol and is one of the handful of companies that also bypass biomass.
Pienkos said his calculations, based on information in Joule's recent paper, indicate that though they eliminate biomass problems, their technology leaves relatively small amounts of fuel in relatively large amounts of water, producing a sort of "sheen." They may not be dealing with biomass, but the company is facing complicated "engineering issues" in order to recover large amounts of its fuel efficiently, he said.
Massachusetts firm claims it can grow fuel - [AUTOLINK]CBS[/AUTOLINK] News
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Another article here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/science/earth/14fuel.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=joule%20unlimited&st=cse
Official site here:
Joule Unlimited | Solving the energy crisis with affordable, renewable clean fuel
Technical article here (which contains the attachment enclosed):
A new dawn for industrial photosynthesis
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