[Biodiesel In Utah] Algae - the next big thing

[eastmanassociates at comcast.net]

Rulon -

No website yet, but that's on my list.  For the moment, we're scrambling around getting our financing in place and finalizing our incorporation as an LLC.  When the site is up, I'll put the url on this list.

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Alan D. Eastman, PhD 
Eastman Associates LLC 
801-278-9560

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From: "Rulon Larsen" <rulon at purepetroleum.net> 
Alan,

Do you have a website up for this product? If so will you forward the link to it.

Thanks,

Rulon

Rulon Larsen
Pure & Related Companies
3165 East Mill Rock Drive, Suite 325
Holladay, UT 84121
www.purepetroleum.net

Office - 801/943-PURE (7873)
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From: eastmanassociates at comcast.net
To: list at utahbiodiesel.org
Sent: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:54:08 -0700
Subject: [Biodiesel In Utah] Algae - the next big thing


I haven't been contributing much, but thought you might be interested in what I've been doing.  With the help of a couple partners from California, I'm involved in starting up a little company to make biodiesel from algae.  We hope to have a pilot plant up and running some time next spring, and a full-blown commercial plant (~7 MM gpy) by about 2009.  

Clearly, this is not what most of you are doing, but over the long run, the high productivity and non-food nature of algae will probably win out over all current sources of oil for biodiesel.  Consider this:  the NREL estimates the productivity of soy oil as 38 gallons of biodiesel per acre per year.  In their (very imperfect) pilot runs, they achieved productivity of nearly 10,000 gallons of biodiesel per acre of algae per year.

Biodiesel is indeed the future, but it may look a lot greener (figuratively and literally) than even we think now.

--
Alan D. Eastman, PhD 
GreenFire Energy
801-278-9560
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