Low-cost process produces natural gas from algae

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ^ | May 6th, 2009 | Unknown

[Fred Hayek]

It will get shot down because it’s not a food crop. No logic involved, the goobermint is fixated on diverting food crops for biofuel. Thus biofuels will remain boondoggles.

To err is human, but it takes a goobermint bureaucrat to really mess things up.

[grey_whiskers]

I'll stick with a Rickshaw

"Here is our solution to the energy crisis," said Abdur, with a fatuousness I thought you had to go through Yale Law School to acquire. A tricycle rickshaw is energy efficient like a Kuwaiti oil-well fire. The average food intake in Bangladesh is said by the Bangladeshi government to be 2,215 calories a day. One gallon of gasoline provides 125,000 BTUs, which is equivalent to 31,250 calories. In other words, a gallon of gasoline is a box of sugar donuts, a half-dozen twelve-ounce steaks, three six-packs of beer, a pizza, an apple pie, a twenty-piece bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, one hundred chocolate chip cookies, a birthday cake, a quart of bourbon, and a Big Mac and fries -- which is more than a rickshaw puller gets in two weeks, if ever. And a gallon of unleaded regular costs about seventy-five cents, before taxes. Try feeding anybody for two weeks on seventy-five cents, even in Dhaka.

--P.J. O'Rourke, All The Trouble in The World

Cheers!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

"Algae and other aquatic biomass hold significant promise for our country's ability to produce renewable energy domestically,"

Not sure if this is a new one.

Oh...swamp gas.

[topher]

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