Bio Technology Will Be The Most Important Investments Of This Century
Biodiesel
Algae is far superior to all other crops.
It is our belief that biodiesel made from algae is far superior to all other crops or sources of biodiesel. This is because it will produce 15-50 times what the best oil producing crops in the world will produce.

Here are some of the liters per hectare figures in this chart (note that the figure varies greatly depending on who you ask, where it is grown, how it is planted, the strain used, how many harvests per year, etc)....
Oil Crop
Soybeans
Rapeseed
Jatropha
Algae
Liters of Oil per Hectare
216
5,715
1,957-9,000
60 000 – 160 000 per hectare per year EECA
As you can see, algae produces a lot more oil per Hectare than all the other oil crops put together. And this is why algae biodiesel is gaining more and more interest.
Here are some other points to consider...
•    Algae could be the ultimate in renuwable energy.
•    Algae consumes carbon dioxide, thus reducing harmful greenhouse gases.
•    Carbon credit trading is in its early stages, but suffice to say those "carbon credits" are very valuable.                                                Total estimated carbon credit trading this year is about $72 billion dollars. And is expected to reach $32 Trillion by 2020. Carbon Credits explained.
•    The by product left over after extracting the oil can be used in cattle feed, vitamins, pigments, cosmetics, etc.
•   Algae can also be used to clean up waste water.
•    Blue green algae is already well known in the vitamin supplements industry. This business sector has been cultivating algae for many years now in huge quantities. So this technology is not new.
•    One of the benefit hydrogen is to power the new fuel cell cars or cars that burn hydrogen directly in an internal combustion engine. Right now, most hydrogen is produced using expensive electrolysis.
•     Glycerin is also another valuable byproduct if the production of Biodiesel from Algae.
New Zealand currently imports 2.9 to3,500,000,000 liters of diesel each year.
Neptune Biofuels aim to move past the hype and into full time mass production of Biodiesal in New Zealand.

Neptune Biofuels belief that can provide all NZ's diesel requirements from Algae & provide export product to the vast international market. 


Neptune Biofuels aim to have fully operational low scale Algae to Biodiesel plant in full production by 31st December 2010.

For further information about Neptune Biofuels Co Ltd
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"Anastasios Melis a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley discovered that if the algae culture medium is deprived of sulfur it will switch from the production of oxygen (normal photosynthesis), to the production of hydrogen. He found that the enzyme responsible for this reaction is hydrogenase, but that the hydrogenase lost this function in the presence of oxygen. Melis found that depleting the amount of sulfur available to the algae interrupted its internal oxygen flow, allowing the hydrogenase an environment in which it can react, causing the algae to produce hydrogen."
Study’s in the US show at conservative numbers of 10,000 gallons per acre of algae, the authors find that only 10 million acres would be needed. ONLY 10 million acres you say? While that sounds like a lot based on the sheer size, the reality is that it is a small portion of land currently used for agriculture and animal grazing in the US (over 1 billion acres!)