Let me know if my assumptions are wrong
but it doesn't matter if the Algae dies in the bioreactor does it? So you have to just get high growth rates in a specific time rather than having a healthy enviroment.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:22, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

The same could be said about cultivating children for organ harvesting.
That would be a great business plan. There would be an almost never ending supply of children, and there would be no waiting lists for organ transfers.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:25, Reply)

They don't photosynthesise unfortunatly.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:26, Reply)

the lazy bastards

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:33, Reply)

it matters because you need the algae to increase in density - reproduce, essentially
and produce the phospholipids that you can make biodiesel out of. they won't do either if they aren't happy.

It doesn't strictly matter if they die but it's easier to harvest them whole.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:26, Reply)

When I mine my first landfill you can fill it with algae.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:28, Reply)

This could be a job for TGB
tyo provide alarge wet and warm recepticle for the growth of algae
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:28, Reply)

I'd rather use a reactor so I can control the environment
plus, we've already developed and tested them, it's just I can't be arsed to commercialise right now, you have to deal with such wankers to get it going.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:29, Reply)

That's true,
Still there's some fat cat quango green initiative money out there.
www.carbontrust.co.uk/emerging-technologies/current-focus-areas/algae-biofuels-challenge/pages/algae-biofuels-challenge.aspx
(PsychoChomp, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:32, Reply)

Actually that funding has stopped.
Probably some euro money about though.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:34, Reply)

carbon trust are cunts* and I wouldn't touch them with yours


*carbon trust are not actually cunts but have really prohibitive IP restrictions which mean I'm not prepared to work with them at the moment.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:34, Reply)

They seem a bit too slick to me.
edit: but anyway I think it's a good idea, and if you can use waste or contaminated water and clean it with the Algae you'll add another way to make money.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:35, Reply)

you need fairly hardcore shit
to deal with contaminated water - rhodococcus, clostridia, say, rather than algae - but we've looked at linked systems to do both.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 17:00, Reply)

You say the most romantic things

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:29, Reply)

he does, doesn't he

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:31, Reply)

Come on baby, come back to my hotel
there are complimentary biscuits and I have chocolate mousse...
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:32, Reply)