The Algae President (Saturbray)

www.brayincandy.com ^ | 2/25/12 | bray

[FastCoyote]

[Algae has a lot going for it and will be a great source of fuel. ]

Algae sucks as a liquid fuel substitute. It benefits from carbon pumping, so you want to put it next to coal plants. But then you might as well burn it in the furnaces cause otherwise you have to process megatons of it. And yes I researched it thoroughly, even bought some algae websites.

[Reeses]

If someone figured out how to create oil from algae economically on an industrial scale the greens would fight the construction of every factory anywhere in the country.

They've already started: World Bank Urges Global Action to Save Oceans They will head off using any of Earth's sun absorbing ocean surface to grow genetically engineered algae. The water, real estate, and sunshine are unlimited and free for the taking. Petroleum could be entirely replaced using less than 2% of the ocean surface, but the lefties will have none of it. They think they've got us cornered and are not about to let us go free.

The algae breakthrough will come from USA military research spending, not from Barky's repeat of Carter's Aquatic Species Program. When the breakthrough happens is largely dependent on when we get serious about it. It will probably occur sometime within the next 50 years, which means we've got less than 50 years to pump all the oil out of the ground before it is completely worthless. Drill here, drill now, because it's going out of style!

[bray]

It’s on my website where I wrote a post on him. Goggle Chu and Stanford and it will come up, it was one of his hallmarks.

Pray for America

[pabianice]

I live near a small restaurant (seats approx. 60 people). The owner is a friend. He tells me he produces 6,000 gallons (36,000 pounds) of used cooking fat per month and has to pay for it to be pumped out of his storage tank and carted away. That’s 432,000 pounds of cooking fat in a year. From just one small restaurant. Per the latest tally (2007), there were 1,259,655 restaurants in the U.S. You bet there’s plenty of used oil.

[DManA]

The water, real estate, and sunshine are unlimited and free for the taking.

I don't know anything about it but I do know living things need more then sunshine to grow. If you are taking millions of gallons of oil out of the ocean every year(via algae) something is being taken out of the ocean to make it that and will have to be replaced.

What inputs (besides sunlight) will this process use?

[DManA]

In 2004 Americans used 391 million gallons of gas/day.

http://ask.yahoo.com/20040507.html

[Reeses]

Hydrocarbons consist only of hydrogen and carbon atoms combined different ways. The hydrogen atoms come from the water, H2O. The oxygen atoms are released into the air during photosynthesis. The carbon atoms come from CO2, which is plant food. The energy comes from the sun. It's a closed loop system that can run until the sun burns out. The plants need other nutrients to do their job but these atoms are recycled.

A risk about genetically engineered algae is they could go berserk. Left unchecked they might cover the Earth's oceans 20 feet deep in oil.

[DManA]

There's the hitch. They are not recycled. We would be removing billions of gallons of materials/year including these nutrients. You can't grow terrestrial crops without inputs. You cannot grow ocean crops without inputs.

The plants need other nutrients to do their job but these atoms are recycled.