More Algae in the News.

Here is a company that has started a pilot project to reduce their green house gases by 60% when it’s in full operation.

The power plant in Boardman, Oregon, is the state’s only coal-fired facility — and also the the state’s largest single emitter of carbon dioxide. To deal with this problem, Portland General Electric and Columbia Energy Partners have started a pilot project to turn the otherwise nasty emissions into biodiesel, ethanol, and even livestock feed.

Tags: algae, green house gases

Grow Algae, Create BioDiesel, Feed the Worms

I had the idea not too long ago to combine the growing of algae in a bioreactor. Then you can harvest the algae and run it through a press and squeeze out the oil to make biodiesel fuel. Now most systems like this. The left over biomass or algae cakes are burned and the CO2 is pumped back into the algae bioreactor. I want to do something a little different and feed the algae cakes to my hordes of biomass eating red worms. This mass of worms would love to devour the algae cakes that are left over from the fuel making process. The byproduct of the the worms eating algae and the worm castings themselves would create the perfect organic soil fertilizer. Now don’t go out and steal my idea you just might save the planet and have a great looking vegetable garden also. Currently my worms are pretty much on a paper/banana diet so they might enjoy a change in diet.

Have any alternative fuel or composting ideas?

Tags: algae, biodiesel, worm castings