Diesel RVs: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Alternate Diesel Fuels

Tony,

I have never developed an interest in the reclassification of life into groups.

I think that what used to be called blue-green algae has been renamed cyano-bacteria.

I think that none of them produce much oil.

I think that the 20 that we are interested in are true algaes.

My concern is finding 1 or more species that can be "farmed" to produce oil.

My favorite is CCMP647, a strain of Pleurochrysis carterae. If we prove that it works, maybe we can ask your SWMBO to verify the proper classification of it.

<https://ncma.bigelow.org/node/1/strain/CCMP647>

NCMA (used to be CCMP) says it is:
Class: Prymnesiophyceae Genus: Pleurochrysis Species: carterae

Bobby

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Lost but making good time. <aldridgetony97@yahoo.com> wrote:

Bobby SWMBO is a retired microbiologist, she tells me that cyano-bacteria - is a bacteria not an algae, it grows out blue green on a petri dish, it will not be an oil feed stock, there may be a cyano algae???.
Tony

--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, audiolaw@... wrote:
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> Garbage IS used in some places, mostly burned to power steam generating
> plants. It's hard to think of it as a specific fuel feedstock, since
> "garbage" is a term that can be used to describe so many mixtures of various
> things (without even considering the "garbage" we see in political ads).
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> One of the interesting advantages of the cyanobacteria efforts is that
> they include efforts to create genetically modified bacteria that will
> generate oils from a variety of feed stocks.
>
> Dead leaves and wood are substantively different from paper, since
> lots of chemicals are used when making paper, and there are 'contamination'
> issues about what things in paper might poison the bacteria.
>
> Alcohol holds less energy per unit volume that diesel, kerosene,
> gasoline, etc. So focusing on making it is better suited to other uses of
> alcohol. I don't recall many stories about moonshiners running their cars and
> trucks on the alcohol they brewed.
>
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> In a message dated 7/17/2012 8:53:07 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> tccservice111@... writes:
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> I want garbage looked at for fuel,paper,dead leaves,and wood to make
> alcohol.Green things press for oil,then left over for alcohol.Left over to
> enrich farm land.
>
> --- On Tue, 7/17/12, n61cm <jim@...> wrote:
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> From: n61cm <jim@...>

> Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Alternate Diesel Fuels
> To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 6:50 AM
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> A few years ago I volunteered to be a judge in the local high school's
> science fair. One of the kids had harvested two types of algae from local
> ponds (which he called "green" and "brown" algae), extracted the oil from them,
> and burned it to determine which algae had more energy. Every now and then
> a kid comes along who renews my faith in the future.
>
> On a related note, why are we always looking for the one single thing to
> replace oil? It's probably better to replace it with a bunch of things, not
> just one.
>
> Jim
>
> --- In _diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com_
> (http://us.mc1147.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com) , Bobby Yates Emory
> <liberty1@> wrote:
> >
> > Tom,
> >
> > Thanks for the opening for a plug.
> >
> > There are a few thousand of us who are trying to develop ways to grow
> algae
> > and extract oil.
> >
> > We are now making small progress toward an open source solution, but have
> > not cost the taxpayers millions.
> >
> > Some of the algae are called cyanobacteria. I am not a microbiologist so
> I
> > don't know whether they are bacteria or not.
> >
> > Everyone is invited to join us here:
> >
> > <_http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oil_from_algae/join_
> (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oil_from_algae/join) >
> >
> >
> > Bobby
> >
> >
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