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Algae in Australia - Area needed for producing fuel
“First, we need to grow a lot of algae,” he says. “You need 100 square kilometres to produce one per cent of Australia’s diesel needs per year. But it is still a good proposal because to get the same result with land crops you would need 5000 square kilometres of land or more.”
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Algae Researcher & Marine phycologist Professor Michael Borowitzska of Murdoch University
Marine phycologist Professor Michael Borowitzska of Murdoch University has been researching algae as a feedstock for biofuel for more than 25 years, but interest – and funding – have waxed and waned with the price of oil.
Algae in Australia - W Aus has biggest algae production plant
Commercial culture of algae has been around for more than 40 years and Western Australia already has the biggest algae production plant in the world – at Port Gregory in the Mid-West. - Read More
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Algae grown for food supplements that are 500 $ per Kg!
“This algae is grown for fairly expensive products such as dietary supplements that sell for $500 a kilogram. That price has to come down to 50 cents a kilogram to make it economically profitable to make biodiesel and it would have to be less than $1 a kilogram to be really viable. So that is where the challenge lies. Ultimately, it’s about economies of scale.” - Read More
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Australian state government awards $166,000 in bid to jumpstart algae biodiesel industry
(May 2008) In Australia, the Queensland Government awarded $166,000 to James Cook University and MBD Biodiesel towards an algae farm and biodiesel plant in Townsville. MBD said that it would build a 35,000 tonne algae bioreactor facility in 2008, and establish a 900-acre algae farm by 2010 that would support a 250,000 tonne algae biodiesel facility. - Read More
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