Pond scum to the rescue?

Denver Post ^ | 07/05/2008 | unknown

[jonrick46]

"If I had to have a small micro-refinery in my garage . . "

You are very correct. I was reading about the process steps of dilution, micro-emulsification, pyrolysis and transesterification needed to make diesel fuel from algae. These refining processes I wouldn't want to do in my garage using today's off the shelf hardware. However, if invention could make a way to do it in a modular unit, you could run your full bloomed algae in, add ethanol and sodium ethanolate, and watch diesel fuel come out of one tube and glycerol out another. Sort of a high tech bread maker.

[Gondring]

If there is an upside to high energy prices it is that the ingenuity of the American people gets put on display.

I hope we can just start drilling in ANWR so we can stop thinking so hard and just turn American Idol back on!