The Scam of Scum

Canada Free PRess ^ | March 4, 2012 | Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser

[Vince Ferrer]

Algae, the green stuff suspended in and floating on the surface of over-fertilized (polluted) water, AKA scum, is supposed to save America’s dependence on foreign crude oil. The President has said so. He stated that “up to 17% of the oil we import for transportation” could be replaced with this fuel [1].

It bears no semblance to any reasonable cost/benefit analysis in either energy or cost terms.

In simple terms, it’s just another “green” scam.

[Reeses]

Tank growing is always going to have too high a capital cost. There are predatory amoeba algae eaters that could be used like antibodies. The desired algae could be engineered to contain a friend or foe protein that would cause the amoeba to ignore it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Salt water is pretty mild compared with many petroleums. It would be an odd complaint that it is too corrosive to deal with, and perhaps algae farms could be accommodated out in the ocean itself. The resulting bioharvest would still need to have salt flushed out of it, of course.