I wonder if this is anything like the Korean scientist who says he cloned a human?
And I can make a spaceship from soup.
Starve the whales.
Isn't plankton the dude from SpongeBob Squarepants show??
We already have a device that turns plankton into oil. It's called a whale...
Okay, yesterday we had a thread about bacteria that make(precipitate) gold. Now we have algae that make oil. We now need a lifeform that makes chocolate and all or problems will be solved......
Notify Greenpeace!
Save The Plankton!
The Japanese said they could extract oil from steer manure. Maybe we could rig our sewage treatment plants to extract oil from human turds.
Actually, this is probably true. A couple of Israelis over the years found a way to turn garbage into recyclable crude.
Here's what they're not telling you, though. The process is NOT energy efficient. It probably takes as much energy, or more, to make the oil, as the oil is worth.
This kind of thing isn't new. As I said, the Israelis used heat and pressure to break down molecular bonds and then link hydrocarbon polymers. Whoop-de-doo, if it isn't an energy efficient process.
Ultimately, the only real way out of this is solar power, fuel cells and nuclear power. Nothing else would be efficient enough, of the stuff thats on the current horizon.
Unless someone has secretly developed a perpetual motion device, or mastered cold fusion.
NO WAR FOR KRILL!
OK, I take that back. Bottled water is more expensive than gasoline.
The University of New Hampshire is looking at similar technology:
http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html
`So the pytoplankton absorb CO2 as they grow, reducing CO2 in the atmosphere. What happens when you burn the fuel?
I'm still waiting for the Spanish to prove they can make food from Paella.
Until there is verified cost data, this article is worthless. Alternatives that are far more costly than existing energy sources are magnets for governments subsidies and companies with lots of PR and red ink.
Why can't somebody do something with all those damn jellyfish off Namibia?
You can also use it to make Soylent Yellow and Red. Soylent Green coming out soon.