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How is Green Diesel different to Sapphire's Green Crude in terms of chemical process and cost? Please excuse my lack of chemistry expertise.
They are pretty vague on their process. But it doesn't appear to be hydrocracking.
Yes, I was also going to bring up Sapphire's Green Gasoline / Green Crude as an adjunct to your post Robert.
Big tie-in to the medical community read: bio-synthetic organisms on this one.
Taking great aims to avoid the biofuel label though - good luck ;)
I suspect Sapphire will suffer from the same issues that all closed, photo-bioreators have.
"I suspect Sapphire will suffer from the same issues that all closed, photo-bioreators have."
Which would be?
They seem to have got been offered an "open checkbook" from the Welcome Trust which makes them sound better than average to me but who knows.
Closed photo-bioreactors are prohibitively expensive to build, operate and maintain.
The algae population must retain a high oil-weight ratio and remain as homogenous as possible.
External sources of light, nutrients and carbon are needed to sustain population growth.
The Israelis have been messing around in the Negev for sometime using outdoor/closed raceway patterns which are then connected to industrial waste emissions.
At one stage they were bragging about how the algae were taking in both the carbon and contaminants of the emissions stream -a good thing as far as pollution is concerned- but perhaps not so good for the algae population proper.
Did someone go and start People for the Ethical Treatment of Algae when I wasn't looking?