Researcher: Discovery could end energy crisis

Tifton (GA) Gazette ^ | 3/15/2008 | Jana Cone

[decimon]

...bacterial organisms that can convert bio-mass into hydrocarbons...

One downside is that they eat you too.

[saganite]

I believe there is already a similar plant in operation. I saw a TV show about it. It converts primarily turkey waste. The article didn’t discuss the economics of this plant so it’s hard to say whether or not it’s cost effective. The fact that he sites nothing but govt officials and agencies raises the BS flag for me.

[vladimir998]

Give this guy a raise!

[wolfcreek]

“What happens to the residue?”

COMPOST

[wolfcreek]

“One downside is that they eat you too.”

Thinking the same.

I saw this B-rated Sci-Fi movie about a company making tiny nano-robots to eat oil spills. They escaped and started eating the world.

[Fresh Wind]

What happens to the residue?

Soylent brown.

[johnny7]

After a few technical questions Mr Bell fled the field.

[theDentist]

Sounds promising....

[BRL]

I think Mr. Bell's bacteria farm is located in a tunnel next to his perpetual motion machine.

[omega4179]

Does your toyota burn rice or gasoline?

[kindred]

Sounds good, but won’t the hateful politicians block any idea that would lessen their power and monies grab? And since the majority of Americans believe the lying politicians and continue to elect liars and thieves, why would they do the right thing if they can get away with doing the wrong things all the time.

[vietvet67]

[Red Badger]

Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.....

If you want ON or OFF the DIESEL ”KnOcK” LIST just FReepmail me.....

This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days.....

[RedOhioan]

I don’t know who is more paranoid about “big oil”....the folks and DU and KOS or in this thread, lol.

[deuteronlmy232]

DITTO!!!!!!!

[Texas Mulerider]

Gee, Haw, Whoa, Back.

You realize, of course, that only a select minority here understand the meaning of "gee" and "haw."

[Normandy]

Here’s the company that does that:

http://www.changingworldtech.com

[Sudetenland]

You need to adjust your tin-hat, halfwit. Why don't you carry your but over to your like-minded friends on DU.

Shell Tries to Turn Algae into Fuel

Last week, the oil company Royal Dutch Shell announced plans to build an algae biodiesel plant in Hawaii. The project will progress in stages: first, the company will build a small research plant, with hopes to build a full-scale commercial plant within two years. Algae is an incredibly tantalizing yet frustrating potential fuel source, as PopSci's Elizabeth Svoboda found out earlier this year when writing the tale of an algae biodiesel startup in Colorado. The microbes can create enormous amounts of oil from very little in the way of nutrients and land, but extracting the oil and converting it to biodiesel remains extremely difficult.

Shell is partnering with Hawaii-based HR Biopetroleum on their project, and hopes to produce 8.5 million barrels of biodiesel a year at the commercial plant.—Michael Moyer

http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/2007/12/shell-tries-to.html

You probably still believe in those "magic" carburetors and perpetual motion machines as well.

BWAAHAAHAAHAAHAA! Go take your meds. Let those with rational minds take care of the heavy lifting. "Big Oil" companies have invested $Billions in alternative sources.

[thackney]

Are you kidding? A source like this would secure petroleum type hydrocarbons as our fuel. The collection, processing, storage, distribution and retail sales are already in place with companies like ExxonMobil. Today, ExxonMobil buys more oil than they produce themselves and they have to buy it from countries that allow greater production than we do here in the US.

This would secure their business and knock down alternative fuels.

[Wavrnr10]

GM, Ford and Chrysler will go bankrupt soon anyway.

No they will adapt to change. If their car public demands it. So long as they don’t run to the closest rice burning farm and buy Toyota’s and make the economy stronger for them instead of us.