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Simgae: Diversified Energy puts algae in your fuel tank

Posted Aug 31, 2007 at 12:52AM by Charles D. Listed in: Alternative Energy Tags: biofuels
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"Our friends, the algae" - this may be the new slogan that will be sweeping the nation as a breakthrough algae production system invented by XL Renewables, Inc. has created perhaps the most efficient source for biofuel to date.

Backed by Diversified Energy Corporation, this new approach was dubbed Simgae (short for simple algae). Putting it simply, it uses the usually green little crust that usually covers most ponds you see and extracts the oils to be used as biofuel.

A lot of pros have been sited to the use of such a simple source as a fuel alternative. For one thing, it costs about 1/2 to 1/16th of the capital cost compared to other biofuels with a reasonably low maintenance and operation requirement. The fact that algae also is able to produce oxygen - like any plant - as well as absorb carbon emissions, is a good plus to the system devised.

So why hasn't this system been implemented before if it's such a smart idea? The cost to create structures and architecture to cultivate such algae systems have been deemed too costly and impractical for the time it can be harvested to reap its benefits.

Simgae offers a simpler solution to this problem. Through a series of a conventional irrigation drip system, called Algae Biotape, the cost and maintenance for the setting up of this project has been nominally decreased.

This is definitely one project for those of you who are interested in being a little more "green" that should get your attention. So until then, remember, algae are your friends.

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   by i'm (Unregistered) - 2007-08-31
 » simgae?!
sounds like a good idea. But what a stupid-ass name. Come on! That has got to be the worst idea since the elite! by the way.. FIRST!



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