First algae, now spinach to be green energy source

Beltway Confidential ^ | 4/24/2012 | Joel Gehrke

[SueRae]

President Obama recently touted algae as a potential source of energy, and now the Environmental Protection Agency has invested in converting spinach into an energy source.

The EPA awarded a $90,000 grant over the weekend to Vanderbilt University students "who designed a biohybrid solar panel that substitutes a protein from spinach for expensive silicon wafers that are energy intensive to produce, and is capable of producing electricity."

[SueRae]

Must be the "popeye" plan...

Please,Somebody, get the hook and get these morons off the stage..

[Steely Tom]

We need a picture of Popeye’s bicep with a whirling dynamo inside.

[Revolting cat!]

Put a Popeye in your tank!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

I yam a supporter, I yam.

[BitWielder1]

It's a really bad idea to cut into the food supply, we should have learned that from the corn based ethanol debacle.

[Lady Jag]

What’s next? Green M&Ms?

[Revolting cat!]

[TurboZamboni]

green skittles and tea cold fusion power

[mosesdapoet]

I think it’s great ! Then they can smelt the iron that’s in spinach ....Only thing is like with the Brits who think that OB’s algea (pond scum)n would do the trick ...only problem was it would have to have ponds the size of England to grow 50 barrels in ummm 50 years....

[DustyMoment]

First algae, now spinach to be green energy source

And, after ObamaCare is fully implemented, the grandparents will become Soylent Green . . . . . . ANOTHER green energy source!!

Yummmmm . . . . . . . soylent green!

[Lady Jag]

[Paladin2]

Spinach is second only to freshly cut, wet grass in chlorophyll leakage.

[Dallas59]

[Aevery_Freeman]

We'll be strong to the finach
cuz' we eats our spinach!

Actually, it feels more like The Twilight Zone than The Popeye Show.

[Arrowhead1952]

Please,Somebody, get the hook and get these morons off the stage..

First they came for my corn and now my spinach?? No way. I LOVE fresh spinach.

Come and take it!!
You will regret it.

[Grampa3711]

Yup, spinach has always been a pain: lots of good stuff in it, but hard for the gut to get out. Another case of burning coal to produce steam to turn a turbine and make electricity to power a car without having to fill up on petrochemicals: brilliant(?)

[Hot Tabasco]

Great, just like the skyrocketed price of corn based foods due to the ethanol crap, now we have to prepare for the sky rocketing cost of spinnach.......

[Aevery_Freeman]

If solar could power an advanced species,
Plants would be eating us!

[Aevery_Freeman]

Don't want to use the free hydrocarbon bonds, let's recreate the friggin' wheel.

O-blame-a is just stupid.

[Lady Jag]

Not green Skittles!

Chives!