7-28 IAN Oil from Algae

 Hey Ag producers. An opportunity. I’m David Sparks and I’ll be right back to tell you about becoming an algaepreneur. Algae oil is renewable, does not affect the food channel and consumes CO2.  I have recently learned about algae oil as a potential feedstock to help biodiesel producers become self-sustainable.  It's one solution to help the US reduce its dependence on foreign oil and create new green jobs.

 The National Algae Association has chapters throughout the country to assist algaepreneurs create algae production plants to provide  biodiesel producers with a renewable feedstock.  Algae oil can be made into biodiesel, ethanol, biogasoline, jet fuel and bioplastics. 

 Here’s the National Algae Association’s Executive Director, Barry Cohen: Picture 5-10 feet tall vertical tubes with water and algae in it. You then have to harvest it. Then the final step is extraction and there are off the shelf existing technologies to break the cells and get the oil. We’ll buy every drop of algae oil any of my members can produce. We make the same crude as big oil does without the sulphur. We talk to farming communities, cactus farmers.