EnviroWave by Robert Green

How did you celebrate Earth Day 2007?

This years Earth Day punctuates the importance of our impact on the environment more so than any other in the history of Earth Day celebrations. With Google's logo embedded as iceberg art, Discovery Channel's showing of "Green, the new Red, White and Blue", and the IPCC's recent release of the latest summary of global impact due to Global Warming, I believe we have achieved main stream awareness of the issue.

Now, to get people motivated into doing something about it. This weekend, I spent time preparing my house for a new baby, and along the way replaced some incandescent bulbs with mini-florescent bulbs, cleaned dryer vents, opened windows instead of blasting the air conditioning, and spent time spreading the word.

What's going on in your environment?

Robert

One trend that seems to be making more headway is that of algaeculture. This is the agrarian process of growing and harvesting algae for its many byproducts. These byproducts include food, fertilizer, ethanols, and biofuels. Algae is also a good medium for water treatment plants for water purification.

Two companies that I am aware of are making headway with growing algae for biofuel production is Green Fuel Technologies Company and Petroalgae, LLC. Both of these companies produce biofuels, each with proprietary technologies for growing and harvesting the algae.

Green Fuel's system partners with fossil fuel plants and siphons the carbon dioxide from the flue for input into bioreactors containing the algae. When the algae concentration is high enough, the biomass is harvested and the oils expressed, creating a biofuel that can help offset the outside fuel demands of multi-fuel furnaces, or the biomass may be harvested for protein extraction for other food related products.

Petroalgae claims to use a high oil percentage algae, which is grown in some modular system, for the express purpose of producing biofuels. This species of algae, is believed to double at an rate of once per 24 hours, making harvesting a continuous process.

After much research on this same subject, I believe I have invented a means of growing and harvesting large amounts of algae, which by itself can be processed on site into whatever desired product line should be, depending on the species of algae cultivated, without the costs of huge tracts of land, manual labor, and additional fossil fuel costs, with the added benefit of measurable carbon dioxide emissions reductions, think 'CDM' project, and measurable oxygen production.

I am happy to describe my invention and process to anyone interested in learning more about it, in hopes of generating a business from this idea. If you, or someone you know may be interested in algaeculture, for biofuel production, food or food supplement production, or other biomass derivatives, please email me directly at rjgreenwave@gmail.com.


Robert