To: President Donald Trump, The Washington State House, The Washington State Senate, Governor Jay Inslee, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Biodiesel from our Wastewater
We with interest in dealing with our energy and economic problems and to have methods to use that are sustainable and effective we need to use renewable resources to gain our daily needs in burnable fuels.
One of these resources is secondardy wastewater effluent, with solids removed, which is a perfect fertilizer to grow algae from which we produce by living daily in enough volume to grow, harvest, press and refine more fuel than is burned daily today, some 474-million gallons of all types of transportation fuels which for 300-million people is about 1.58-gallons a day per person, and if wastewater is used to grow algae you get about 2-gallons a day per person on the system.
Phoenix, AZ, and nearby Glendale each produce 10-million gallons of secondary effluent daily, this is 41.5-million pounds of fertilizer, worth $9.33-millon a day if you paid for it to feed algae. By purifying the water you get the 10-million gallons of water recycled like has been done at North Lake Tahoe since the late 1970's reducing fresh-water demand along with about 3-million gallons a day of biodiesel per city for fuels.
Therefore with the resources available to large public institutions, to not put a significant focus in research and development of this rich resource is really criminal behavior for it ignores the public interest, there is too much at stake to ignore possibilities with a few words and back-door deals, instead we want public attention and significant action to create the fuel we need on a daily basis by processes that use up carbon-dioxide and emit oxygen to make them so when burned are near carbon-neutral in high-volume to handle our needs as a country, and world.
Very few biofuels can be made from non-food sources and with wastewater we have an ongoing source of fertilizer that's enough to satisfy the volume demand for fuels our society creates with all the vehicles and engines we use from leaf-blowers to airplanes and ships at sea by using existing infrastructure and replacing flocking chemicals with this process to the secondary effluent.
All of our transportation needs can be fueled by growing algae from our wastewater and so this petition is to bring focus to this process and move it ahead post haste.
Why is this important?
Each of use creates wastewater daily and the reason it can't be released into a river or lake is that it causes algae blooms, it's a rich resource for growing algae.
So in America we burn 474-million gallons of all types of transportation fuels a day and with 300-million people that's 1.58-gallons a person a day in fuel.
If you grow algae to purify the wastewater it's worth about 2-gallons or more a day per person on the system. Biodiesel will burn in any engine on the planet so this suggests a way to gain all our transportation fuels from our own wastewater and never need a drop of oil.
The reasons to do this is that algae are the world's best water cleaners so when growth-rates drop the water is given final treatment and fully recycled like North Lake Tahoe's plant has been doing since the late 1970's, so you get the water back.
Then you get the biodiesel by pressing the algae for oils and giving that a tweak to work with the seals in the engines you use.
This system can work at any scale, for example Phoenix, AZ, produces 10-million gallons a day of secondary effluent, 41.5-million pounds of fertilizer the algae must consume before tomorrow and worth about 3-million gallons of biodiesel daily.
The fertilizer alone is worth over $9-million a day, that's part of the economy of doing this is to use this renewable source to grow our fuel from existing infrastructure and like for Phoenix, a city on canals to get enough water, the 10-million gallons of wastewater is recycled saving that amount in fresh-water demand --- per day.
With a local source of transportation fuels being created at wastewater plants, we'll never need another gallon of foreign oil.