Submitted on July 22nd, 2008 by JG Berson (not verified)
Keep in mind the logistics here, both big and small. 6000 gal per hectare per year works out to .055742 gal per sq.ft per year. So to fill a 20 gal tank every week for a year you will need 18,000 sq.ft of bio-reactor. That's a table 134 ft by 134 feet. A little larger than most homesteads. Then there is the problem of getting and storing and feeding the CO2 to the little critters. And that's just to replace $4200 worth of gasoline, at todays prices.
This is a land grabber project, that needs to be near a coal/oil/gas power generator. And as efficient as it is, I can't see any real ROI in less than 10 years, if at all, keeping in mind a hectare will only replace about $25,000 worth of gasoline a year.
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Submitted on July 22nd, 2008 by JG Berson (not verified)Keep in mind the logistics here, both big and small. 6000 gal per hectare per year works out to .055742 gal per sq.ft per year. So to fill a 20 gal tank every week for a year you will need 18,000 sq.ft of bio-reactor. That's a table 134 ft by 134 feet. A little larger than most homesteads. Then there is the problem of getting and storing and feeding the CO2 to the little critters. And that's just to replace $4200 worth of gasoline, at todays prices.
This is a land grabber project, that needs to be near a coal/oil/gas power generator. And as efficient as it is, I can't see any real ROI in less than 10 years, if at all, keeping in mind a hectare will only replace about $25,000 worth of gasoline a year.