Algae and exhibition ONE PLANET FESTIVAL

Because of time I haven't updated my blog on time! (I try to do it once a week) so I've decided to blog about two things in this blog.

The reason for my busyness is due to the preparation for another exhibition for the ONE PLANET FESTIVAL
The purpose for the festival is to celebrate the lancaster district and to encourage sustainability within the area. There would be local food, music, art and exhibitions from local businesses which helps increase awareness to climate change. Our company can't miss out in the opportunity to encourage composting and recycling education here! Hopefully there will be a few important people and teachers who will be interested in our products and what our company does.

Moving away from the exhibition, I want to talk about a potential next big thing. ALGAE. Its on the news and in many articles. People are starting to pick up on it.. why? Because of three green reasons. 1) The fact that algae is green (isn't really a good reason.. but had to put it in) 2) It's very environmentally friendly for its industrial use and 3) MONEY (if you use american dollar bills)

So what's up with algae? Its is the fact that it absorbs carbon from the atmosphere for its own use (up to 50% of algaes mass is carbon) and that it one fast growing micro-oranism with a high prolific rate. Other than reducing carbon from the atmosphere, oil can be extracted from the algae, which in turn is used for bio-fuel (instead of using corn, raising all the food prices!). Further more, the biomass of the algae is not wasted, since it can be composted. If placed in an anaerobic digestion system, it can be used to drive the system producing more elecricity. So to conclude the end product would be lower carbon, bio-fuel and electricity + fertilizer. Seems too good to be true eh? Definitely so... the cost so far to produce a algae farm such as this is prohibitive, and large pieces of land is required to grow these micro-green slime. But with technology now advancing (they've started growing these in large tubes to save space) ... it seems like a very possible route to a sustainable future.

Right.. off to more preparation...

Will post pictures up of the exhibition in the next few days!

*UPDATE* 5:25pm. I have just finished unloading things in the town hall for the exhibition. I came out to my car to find (drum rolls) a parking ticket on my car. A parking ticket.. for 10 minutes of unloading in front of the town hall, and was asked to park there too. Will be getting off to fill in the challenging form now..