Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 10/26/2009 5:05:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced this morning at Google's Mountain View campus the first round of federal grants on high-risk but potentially high-reward ventures, such as converting bacteria into gasoline, to counter global warming.
Chu chose Google's college-campus-like headquarters to fulfill a pledge by the Obama administration to back the kind of convention-breaking technology Silicon Valley — and the innovative search engine company — is known for.
"We are trying to hit home runs, not base hits," Chu said. "These are out-of-the-box approaches."
The grants are being directed through the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or Arpa-e, a relatively new organization modeled after a Defense Department program known as Darpa.
Darpa pumped resources into high-risk research ventures. Some of its funding, for example, backed research that became the backbone of the Internet.
The new agency received initial funding of $400 million through the federal stimulus act.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Using bacteria to make gasoline to counter global warming. Hmmm...let’s think this through. Assuming that global warming is caused by too much CO2 in the atmosphere, and that the CO2 is generated from burning hydrocarbons, and that gasoline is a hydrocarbon...
I’m wondering just how it makes a difference to the global warming theory whether the gasoline comes from the ground through distilled petroleum, whether it is made by bacteria, or whether the Good Witch of the North creates it with a wave of her magic wand.
In other words, this guy cannot even keep to the logical rubric of his own theory. This Chu guy, though, is not unique to history. Look up Trofim Lysenko. We’ve turned our national science policy into a new kind of Lysenkoism.
There are about 7 or so places just in Mountain View doing that kind of work, but most focus on using ALGAE, not bacteria.
In fact....I have never heard of using bacteria before. This sounds very pie-in-the-sky to me.
Chu is out of his box.
What am I missing here?
Washington got fat on the revenue generated by the tech boom. Now mama’s running low on hoho’s and there’s no money in the cookie jar. So they are desperately trying to artificially create a “green” boom. It’s really sad in a way. They’re doing it out of desperation. That’s why it makes no sense from an environmental standpoint.
I have an “into-the-box” idea to reduce “global warming”: aggressive end-of-life counseling for Democrats.
What’s really sad is how many dolts in this country happily accept this crap, without “thinking it through”.
These same freaks won’t let the forest service fire fighters into the forests to fight fires.
Clinton started the “Roadless” policies, and the fires just are left to burn.
Over 600 acres burned last night and today near San Francisco——which was a “CONTROLLED BURN” by authorities ‘that got out of control’.
Tell that to the “Globulll Warming Liars”, and see if they can calculate how many tons of carbon were lost into the air....
They are lying to us at every level.
If you guess zip, zilch, nada they you're spot-on. The only "rewards" were received by the guys who won the boondoggle projects funded with your money. I hated those years. Every night I felt like I needed another shower.
That is EXACTLY the problem! No one takes the time to apply a little logical reasoning and think things through.
Remember Ozone depletion? Think that one through. What is ozone? It is ionized Oxygen, O3, created only because an O2 molecule has been charged with an external energy source and is ionized as O3. However, it will in due course degrade back to O2. Where is the ozone layer in the atmosphere and why does it exist? The ozone layer is at the higher reaches of the atmosphere, where the most concentrated solar radiation strikes. Thus, you have the external energy source that creates ozone. When and where are the “ozone holes” found? At the poles, during each polar winter. In other words, when the sun does not shine on that part of the atmosphere, and the O3 molecules naturally return to O2.
The pieces of what I just described is taught to every American high school student. All they have to do is connect the dots.
Google and Facebook — between them, what secrets can a person have? We are all naked in the center of a busy town. They know who connects to who, and what wealth level or power level and interests one has, and they even think they know one’s secrets and longings.
whatever happened to “separation of church and state”
Nowhere in the Constitution does it allow Fedzilla to promote a Religious Belief, in fact it EXPRESSLY FORBIDS it.
: a system of beliefs based upon unprovable theory which cannot be supported by fact is by definition RELIGION.
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