Prices of oil barrels are on fire all over the world. At the
same time, NASA is going to develop a plant for generating fuel from the Algae.
When crude prices are touching new height day by day, researchers are keen to
find out some unconventional source of energy. This time Algae comes to the
help of humans. Now a day’s land where agriculture is not possible, it is nice option
to develop algae farms, which is very useful source of Biodiesel, Bio-gasoline,
bio-fuel or vegetable oil.
NASA, in couple of weeks will show a latest technology of
generating energy from algae which grows on the floating plastic bags. Challenges
faced are:
- - Lot of plastic is necessary as every year.
- - Pumping of enough sewage water in to the plant.
- - Need huge piece of land to make it affordable. Each acre can extract 2000 gallons of fuel.
- - Weather condition should be suitable which helps algae to grow.
NASA has demonstrated the research using 9 meters long
plastic bags at near San Francisco. The researcher on life-support systems,
Jonathan Trent, has also developed the plant in around 1200 acres of land near
San Francisco. It is possible to produce 2.4 million of oil for US when the
total usage of oil in US is 800 million. Huge amount of waste water is
necessary to provide necessary environment to let algae grow in optimum speed.
Like sewage water has enough nutrition’s such as ammonia and phosphates which
help algae to grow. Humid warm temperature will also help microbes to multiply
fast which is taken care as processes in plant. This is really nice innovations
carry out by researcher, which will be proved to be blessings when conventional
sources like coal and crude will be out of stock. Anyway and anyhow we are not
going to stop as far as technological innovations are concerned.
