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Default Diesel powered bike, will run on biodiesel

Will check them out. Thanks. Those other links were interesting. I
learned of peak oil at least 3 years ago. It was quite depressing.
This algae thing looks like about the only thing that has a chance of
keeping up with present demand without requiring 3 million square
miles of fuel crops.

Harbin Osteen wrote:

Howdy again Dale:
Algae is grown in what is called a raceway for large systems, but for
small systems
you can use bags, or tanks, but have more dark area than light area, or you
can grow
tubular reactors, which would be my choice for growing in a small system.
Here
is a link that you my want to check out to see what such a system might look
like.
http://www.variconaqua.com/bioreactors.htm
http://www.irccm.de/greenhouse/project.html

Photo of a large system can be seen he
http://www.scripps.edu/newsandviews/...127/algae.html

And this is a good read:
http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html

Another good read; Microreactor:
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/news...roreactors.htm
http://www.capitalpress.info/print.a...56&TM=52092.43



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