Abstract
The green unicellular alga Botryococcus braunii with a hydrocarbon content as high as 75% of the biomass dry weight, holds a good place among plants with a large energetic potential. The observation of the contemporary species in nature, and studies on the fossil species largely implied in petroleum origin, underline the high productivity of this alga. The results of ours recent investigations about effects of culture parameter variations on hydrocarbon production which show that, in culture, hydrocarbon productivity can reachs 15 g/m2/day now support the feasability of an industrial production of “solar hydrocarbons” via a large scale cultivation of this alga.
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