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How It Works

The Earth’s natural response to atmospheric greenhouses gases, including CO2, is the production of biomass and vegetation which, with the help of sunlight, use these gases as feedstock for plant growth and the gradual return of carbon to soils. MBD Energy and its partner team at JCU have developed a CO2 to Energy technology that allows this natural carbon cycle to be replicated under process controlled conditions for the bio-sequestration of industrial greenhouse gases over as short a timeframe as a single day.

Called Algal Synthesis, the process involves the injection of captured flue-gases into a waste water growth medium contained in large, elongated plastic membranes to produce rapid expansion approximating up to a doubling of oil-rich algal biomass every 24 hours. This algal biomass, grown from locally selected strains of microalgae in order to protect local biodiversity, may be harvested daily to produce algal meal suitable for nutritious, lower-methane animal feed, human nutritional supplements, and oils suited to the production of plastics and transport fuels including large quantities of bio-diesel.

Current production forecasts indicate that the sale of these commodities can be expected to readily offset the expenditure of building and operating such a greenhouse gas emissions reduction technology, thus progressively helping deliver cleaner electricity production at the lowest possible cost to consumers, whilst significantly reducing net CO2 emissions.

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Algal Sequestration Algal Sequestration utilises abundant sunlight, captured flue gases, and waste water to grow valuable algal biomass on a large scale and on a continuous and fully enclosed and controlled basis. Read more ∇		‘BAGS’ System MBD has developed its own method of culturing photosynthetic organisms for large scale production. The ‘BAGS’ system is a unique solution to to large scale algae cultivation and harvest. Read more ∇
Strain selection Identification and management of the optimum algae strain for top performance in any given emitter location is vital to optimising yields and production earnings. MBD's research team has developed solutions to strain selection Read more ∇		Oil Extraction MBD has an exclusive Australasian agreement with US company OriginOil Inc which has developed cost-effective high speed extration that reduces harvesting to a single step. Read more ∇