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To: Red Steel
>>the president said, “We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance known as algae.”<<

And, there are enough Obama bots to believe that BS.

6 posted on 02/24/2012 7:05:58 PM PST by Bronzy (Send a NEWTron to Obama!)
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To: Bronzy

“And, there are enough Obama bots to believe that BS. “

It’s really being done in experimental settings. Some scale ups have been tested with I believe some success. If this approach turns out feasible, it would be using solar energy to produce synfuel. The problem caused by solar’s flakiness is greatly mitigated by the storage of the result as a synfuel. Effectively, the synfuel acts as a battery for the solar power generated and allows that solar energy to be used more efficiently than, say, solar panels.

This may turn out to be a pig in a poke. Or it may turn out to be a very interesting and maybe economic approach to using solar for actual reliable, dense power sources.


51 posted on 02/24/2012 10:22:59 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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