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Algae to crude oil: Million-year natural process takes minutes in the lab
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ^
| 12/17/2013
| Tom Rickey
Posted on 12/20/2013 9:24:42 AM PST by logi_cal869
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To: count-your-change
Tens of millions of acres of algae pools to produce significant amounts of oil I live about 10 miles from that...it's called, "The Atlantic"
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posted on
12/20/2013 3:49:59 PM PST
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
To: ecomcon
This is a very special strain of algae.
Is there an problem with contamination that would alter the strain? What kind of nutrient stream would they be feeding the algae?
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posted on
12/20/2013 4:36:10 PM PST
by
Fred Hayek
(The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
To: logi_cal869
Please refer to the activism sidebar. It’s a good guide to what FR considers Activism.
To: AZHSer
He should be proud. I just love how the one guy just opens up the fridge to get more algae like he’s going to pull out some ham to make a sandwich, or maybe to grab a home brew. There’s all this specialized equipment and 5-gallon buckets.
It’s great.
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posted on
12/20/2013 6:51:37 PM PST
by
GEC
(Obamacare is the #MostEpicFailEver)
To: logi_cal869
If this will work with kudzu, we are in business.
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posted on
12/20/2013 7:36:38 PM PST
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
To: Admin Moderator
To: alloysteel
TDP does have impressive results. The problems though aren't the ones you have suggested. For example, NYC could in theory reroute its sewage to a plant for an "endless" supply of feedstock and Tysons TDP plant that was built also had and "endless" feedstock.
The main problem for the plants is transport of feedstock to a facility because they cant at this time be located anywhere near civilization. The smell is so hideous that the plants can be smelled from a million miles away (...OK, maybe not quite that far) which affects the overhead because everything needs to be transported so far.
The other problem that will be encountered that wont really be an issue until these are tried in any significant number is the public service unions. The minute garbagemen and sewage workers are threatened by "evil capitalists putting poor men out of work by taking advantage of free resources", every union will rise in solidarity with their fellow clowns. This will stop the places that are most likely to benefit, ie NYC, from being able to implement such a plan.
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posted on
12/20/2013 10:18:59 PM PST
by
gnarledmaw
(Obama: Evincing a Design since 2009)
To: GEC
That is my BIL. All the boys in the family are pretty bright. They love working stuff out. Even the younger generations. Whole family is full of computer gurus, physicists, and the like. I feel like such a dummy when we all get together, lol.
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posted on
12/20/2013 10:25:30 PM PST
by
AZHSer
To: Jack Hydrazine
I agree. It's why I used the phrase "most of". Astronomical observation seems to show that complex hydrocarbons are commonplace in the solar system and probably the universe so the idea that all of the crude oil and methane under our feet at depths measured in thousands of feet derives from decayed life forms should be discarded into the same pile with Piltdown Man and Anthropomorphic Global Climate Change.
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posted on
12/21/2013 5:38:59 AM PST
by
katana
(Just my opinions)
To: gasport
I suppose that the more carbon dioxide you generate by burning foissile fuels, the more algae you can grow.
(Soylent Green is made of algae)
To: katana
And as far as we know algae isn’t able to grow on Titan!
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posted on
12/21/2013 6:16:34 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
To: alloysteel
Thermal Depolymerization Process oil has been around for a while. Excellent description, thanks! The unknown in my mind is the cost of the process verses getting crude out of the ground. Back when we were playing around with our little "experiment", the price of oil was around $30 a barrel and it didn't seem cost effective.
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12/23/2013 3:22:47 AM PST
by
Errant
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