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Argentina company opens first algae bio-diesel plant
An Argentine company opened on Friday the country's first factory to make bio-diesel from algae, hoping to use it as a replacement for soy in making bio-diesel as part of a push for renewable energy. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWhat better way to counteract british occupation of Malvinas ? if we are lucky we will kill 2 birds with one stone, erradicating pollution with Bio-fuels in one hand and bringing the price of polluting focil fuels to a level that would make it unprofitable to drill undreneth the ocean, win win situation for Argentina, I am not sure britards will even see it coming.
Aug 29th, 2010 - 07:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Kaloustian said the new Oilfox biodiesel plant is the first of its kind in Latin America”
Aug 29th, 2010 - 10:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0False, Mr che idiot Kaloustian should done his homework first before blabber nonsense. A US company PetroSun that works with PetroBrasil were for a long time in the Algae Bio-fuel business, long time ago before this che clown came in action.
Nicholas, I would recommend to read more carefully...
Aug 30th, 2010 - 02:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Kaloustian said the new Oilfox biodiesel PLANT is the first of its kind in Latin America”
“False, Mr che idiot Kaloustian should done his homework first before blabber nonsense. A US company PetroSun that works with PetroBrasil were for a long time in the Algae Bio-fuel BUSINESS, long time ago before this che clown came in action.”
so... were is located the plant of PetroSun & petroBrasil?
anyway right on top it says “An Argentine company opened on Friday the country's first factory to make bio-diesel from algae”, so we are happy to have new alternative and renewable energy for our contry PERIOD.
I wish to congratulate the owners for the opening of this new plant, which allows you to use a new source of energy....It doesn't matter if is the first all over LA or not, the matter is it will use an very profuse algae in our shore, them eat the CO2 from polution and keep free the land for food production, so three birds with one shoot. Well done, Oilfox....as well as the Petrosun & Petrobras jointventure.
Aug 30th, 2010 - 03:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0All kind of alternative energy sources are welcome...and needed
Unfortunately, most alternative energy sources require more calories to produce than is actually extracted from the finished product, like ethanol and most bio-diesel.
Aug 31st, 2010 - 03:06 am - Link - Report abuse 05.- Yes, I agree. But some of them like windfarms, photovoltaic, geothermal or mareomotriz (I don´t know translate it, but could be tidemovement?) don´t need power supply to generate energy. The problem is that the first two are not continous sources (365/24/7) depending on the weather and night/day cycle. But, the last two are continous so they can be used as reliables alternatives energy sources when their facilities implementation cost get affordables numbers.
Aug 31st, 2010 - 03:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In the meantime, we will be depending on the hydraulic or thermal plants helped with increasing quantities of alternative energies.
“but using the edible oil to make fuel is controversial because it cuts into food supplies.”
Sep 01st, 2010 - 03:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0who's food supply ? in Argentina we eat meat, and the only people who use to buy the soy was China but they didn't want it this time around, good timing in any case, now we can use it to feed our engines, something like this happend in Mexico with the taco and US bio-fuels, I think.
7.- I agree with you. But we must tray to use the organic garbage to produce energy too, so the energy production with food capable material be the minimun or that land for food production don´t be diminished because the rpice will get higher, specially to the poorest people that can't eat meat. We must be realistic because the energy needs will increase and the old sources are decreasing. Another possibility are the carbon hidrates in the near future when the technology make them useful.
Sep 01st, 2010 - 03:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#8 It would be ideal to have our organic discompose turn into bio-fuels or even methanol gas, the option was always there, the problem was to have the industry fallow the new trend and quit the dependence and catering for the fosil fuel industry. it is a great leap to freedom from the grips of OIL dependent monopolyes, if we can produse this bio-fuel for less then 20$ per barrel deep sea drilling will become a luxury for the disperately greedy.
Sep 01st, 2010 - 05:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And here we have gassy. A prime candidate for being recycled and turned into a bio-fuel. As he is more than halfway there already.
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