Thursday, May 7, 2026

Jet fuel from algae


1:13 Algae is much more efficient at growing oil per hectare than other candidate plants like palm oil and rapeseed oil. 
1:31 growing algae is prohibitively expensive, unless —
2:37 you feed algae the leftovers from bacterial digestion of agricultural byproducts as the anaerobic bacteria produce biogas. It's a win-win. 
4:01 although burning the algae-derived fuel releases CO2, it balances the CO2 captured by the algae when growing, for a net-zero carbon footprint. 
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