Posted on 06/20/2010 2:54:06 PM PDT by KevinDavis
While millions of barrels of spilled oil choke the Gulf of Mexico, NASA is working on an ocean-based biofuels venture that could revolutionize clean-energy production at sea and treat wastewater at the same time.
The scientist running the $10 million experiment, called Project OMEGA, uses words such as groundbreaking and exciting to describe his baby. But there's a hitch.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Sounds like its greatest value would be in wastewater treatment and oxygen production for space.
This needs to go to EVERY fool who rants about how Republicans are in the ‘deep pockets of big oil’ and that Democrats are the ones who are environmentally aware.
This is a DEMOCRAT appointed DEMOCRAT of NASA. He is using his position to prevent a potentially ‘groundbreaking’ energy from coming to the market because he will lose money in his investments. Not only illegal, but should be screamed from the rooftops.
The Republicans have a good platform and most would probably agree with their party positions. The problem is that they are so snobby and stuck in their own inertia that they refuse to bring the TRUTH about the skanks in the Democratic Party and exposing them for what they are!! This frustrates me to no end. We are left battling the misconceptions and THEY get the cushy offices.
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Off topic ping to this article and my comments on it.
This needs to go to EVERY fool who rants about how Republicans are in the ‘deep pockets of big oil’ and that Democrats are the ones who are environmentally aware.
This is a DEMOCRAT appointed DEMOCRAT of NASA. He is using his position to prevent a potentially ‘groundbreaking’ energy from coming to the market because he will lose money in his investments. Not only illegal, but should be screamed from the rooftops.
The Republicans have a good platform and most would probably agree with their party positions. The problem is that they are so snobby and stuck in their own inertia that they refuse to bring the TRUTH about the skanks in the Democratic Party and exposing them for what they are!! This frustrates me to no end. We are left battling the misconceptions and THEY get the cushy offices.
Bring back Mike Griffin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t be surprised at who is investing in the new projects.
I believe people like Conde Rice is one of the investors.
It is so disappointing to learn of the people you thought you admired and liked turn out to be nothing but common crooks and thugs.
Do you know something about this that is not in the article?
I ask because the article does not state that Bolden is against the project. It says that he is wondering if NASA should be the lead agency pushing it.
I am naturally leery about bashing someone just because Melanie Sloan thinks I should. In fact, alarms start going off when I find out that CREW is involved in the witch hunt.
My husband is on a project like that, using algae to make ethanol. It is pretty amazing. Uses salt water and the by product is oxygen and fresh water, while making the ethanol.
Hansen, and now this guy... NASA is a disgrace and a waste of taxpayer money. “Biofuels” and the “global warming” scam seem to be what this hack outfit focuses on these days.
Shut it down.
I don’t know anything that ISN’T in the article, but not sure what you mean that the article doesn’t say he is against the project. While he isn’t ‘against’ it, he is certainly trying to cripple it.
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From article:
Bolden wrote that he did not think that NASA should be the lead federal agency looking at alternative fuels, expressing concern that OMEGA was “not a good investment in research dollars at this time.”
“I continue to have doubts about the viability of this project, especially after discussions with representatives of the Marathon Oil Corporation,” Bolden wrote to top agency officials on May 2.
Bolden sat on the Marathon board from 2003 until last year, when President Barack Obama named him NASA administrator. When he left the board, according to his 2009 financial disclosure statement, Bolden received Marathon stock equivalents valued at the time between $500,000 and $1 million.
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And then this;
In 2008, while Bolden was still on the Marathon board, Marathon invested $10 million with New Hampshire-based ethanol manufacturer Mascoma Corp. The money was to help construct a plant and further develop the company’s proprietary microbe that hastens the process of turning wood chips or agricultural waste into fuel.
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So Bolden has $1,000,000 worth of stock in Marathon and is asked for the agency to become involved with this biofuel at the urgency of the Navy... a biofuel technology and corporation that would be a COMPETITOR to the corporation he has a ton of money invested in... and he decides AFTER consulting with the COMPETITOR who has reason to not see this technology and corporation advance that his agency isn’t interested?
So maybe he isn’t trying to get outlawed, but he at the LEAST is presenting a conflict of interest in deciding on projects his agency declines while consulting his former employer who he has more money than many folks ever earned with potential to lose.
...an ocean-based biofuels venture that could revolutionize clean-energy production at sea and treat wastewater at the same time.If it's ocean-based, how can it be groundbreaking? ;')
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