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Posted on 11/29/2007 3:24:45 PM PST by decimon
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There is gold in beach sand too, have at it.
Maybe our fossil fuels came not only from the rotting forests and dinosaurs, but also from prehistoric algae?
Which equals lot's of money.
If it were viable and cheaper than oil, we would be using it now.
The Sierra Club types will also claim that it destroys the planet as they claim everything else that makes our country run does and rack up the law suites.
Now they won’t be messing with our food supply. Hurrah!
No, but if the reaction to this is like the reaction to every other energy suggestion presented on this forum, just sit back and watch folks rip this idea to shreds.
No! They’re killing algae!! Call PETP!
We got that twit in South America doing everything he can to make oil go to $200 a barrel, or more. Ditto Iran.
If they both fail, general demand increases from China and India may push the price to $200 per barrel anyway.
Heaven only knows how many dollars have been wasted on tax write-offs for solar installs and other solar R&D projects.
If we can't find half a trillion dollars to get out of this mess, we're too stupid to drive. We should HAVE to go back to riding horses or walking everywhere.
And I say this as a guy who's job is helping the oil companies find and refine oil.
Slaughtering algae for oil? Outrageous! Algae are people, too, you know!
They’d have a hard time. Algae uses CO2 and can be grown on sewage. If they can genetically modify to algae to produce oil when it’s thriving, we literally could supply the nation’s need for diesel on relatively small acreage.
I see algae primarily being grown inside in bioreactors. Ponds aren’t year round in too many places and are too easily contaminated.
The industry also needs to take a hard look at gas extraction of the oil vs. pressing it out as they do now.
Petroleum IS from prehistoric algae and diatoms, and that's been the accepted scientific theory for decades.
Coal is from prehistoric forests.
No fossil fuels have ANYTHING whatsoever to do with dinosaurs and there's never, ever been any scientific theory stating such.
That depends on the beach. For many in Nome, Alaska in 1899, it was well worth the time.
Certain strains of algae contain high amounts of vegetable oils. It is estimated that the algae in a 1 acre pond will have up to 15000 gallons of oil in it. The problem is that other bacteria gets into the water and greatly reduces the yield. The challenge is to find a way to keep the algae and get rid of the bacteria without creating a super strain of algae that would choke rivers and streams and lakes to death.
Nuclear power...
Viable, proved, and clean.
We all know it’s those rich BIG ALGAE companies holding algae fuel off the market until the price returns them the exorbitant prices they want.
At the same time we’ve GOT TO BREAK OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN ALGAE!!!
Meanwhile we MUST establish an equitable tax on algae, encouraging every state to add their taxes onto the federal algae tax as well.
Lots of investors, preferably from the public trough.
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