How can I turn algae into some sort of a biofuel? Answered

I saw the instructable on the algae bio reactor. I then decided to use that as my Marine Biology final project but I also wanted to one up the instructable and put in my thesis that I would turn the algae into a bio fuel. How can I make this possible. Please help my grade depends on this.

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Rotten1942009-04-28

I've been researching this too, for the same reason. There's a couple different ways, but the best (in my opinion) is an oil press, gets about 75% of the oil out and you can sell the algae to farmers afterward.

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Kiteman2009-04-20

Dry and burn it.
Let it rot (anaerobically) and tap off the methane.
Ferment it, and distil out the alcohol.
Extract the oil and burn that.
Feed it to animals (in a similar way to "cattle cake") and let them do useful work (and, of course, you can use the animals' dung as a biomass energy resource).

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