In Perth last week, at a Sustainable Energy conference, I came across this company called BioLectric, doing very interesting stuff with Algae. They claim that "algae can capture and convert CO2 into biomass at a rate higher than any land based plants" and the CO2Algae process cultivates algae on marginal land utilising poor quality water. BioLectric promote their hot house pond systems which use the natural characteristics of the algae.
Algae to biomass/biofuels is an interesting and rapidly emerging area of investigation into energy systems - and has great potential, plus uses natural processes. And this reminds me of the business opportunities of the early computer days, when everyone was interested, but only a few took up the early challenges to change. Rethinking our processes and our energy systems is what is needed, and algae farming may just be one of those opportunities staring at our global collective face.
Image from http://www.biolectric.com.au/co2benefits.html
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