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Joule Awarded Patents for High-Volume Ethanol Production from Sunlight and CO2
Joule Unlimited Website ^ | 7/26/11 | Staff

Posted on 08/02/2011 10:35:56 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus

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This company is getting huge press. Has genetically manipulated cyanobacteria to secrete diesel fuel/ethanol - and will take clean CO2 from coal plants!

The Company is making moves for acreage in New Mexico and it looks like things are happening. Will wait to see the results but the claim is 25,000 gallons of fuel per acre. They can do this at $60 per barrel, with no taxes and clean and renewable!

Some say they cannot harvest yet efficiently. Need much more info.

1 posted on 08/02/2011 10:35:58 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus
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To: Titus-Maximus

Promises, promises.


2 posted on 08/02/2011 10:41:19 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: Titus-Maximus

What happens if this gets loose, in nature?


3 posted on 08/02/2011 10:46:31 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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The producing is the hard part, if they have a bit of heat harvesting will be a minor problem. Warm the liquid and evaporate the alcohol. Find a moonshiner, they’ll work it out.


4 posted on 08/02/2011 10:49:25 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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“What happens if this gets loose, in nature?”

Two headed Volkswagon Beetles?


5 posted on 08/02/2011 10:52:29 PM PDT by moonhawk (The only problem I have with burying Bin Laden at sea is that he was already dead.)
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To: Cheetahcat

If it gets loose, The oceans will turn to whiskey, and we can stay drunk all the time!


6 posted on 08/02/2011 10:53:01 PM PDT by ThirdMate
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A co2 sucking organism turned loose?

What could happen?

all green things end ... including Kermit.

What will Miss Piggy do?

Oh ... she'll be gone too.

7 posted on 08/02/2011 10:53:48 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Will it do windows and cook breakfast in the morning?


8 posted on 08/02/2011 10:54:08 PM PDT by Valpal1 ("No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet." ~ C.S. Lewis)
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To: count-your-change

I would think the problem is that it will evaporate from the ponds prior to harvesting it.


9 posted on 08/02/2011 10:54:31 PM PDT by dila813
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To: Titus-Maximus
They can do this at $60 per barrel, with no taxes and clean and renewable!

Taxes or subsidies?

Taxes are what Joule or its customers pay to the government. Subsidies are what the government pays to Joule.

Which is it? I'm too lazy to visit their website again, but the last time I did, the phrase "including subsidies" occurred with disturbing regularity, rendering their claims meaningless.

10 posted on 08/02/2011 10:54:52 PM PDT by cynwoody
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Too bad ethanol ruins engines. I won’t ever use it unless there is no other alternative.


11 posted on 08/02/2011 10:55:20 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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Waste co2?

What ozero care committee gets to determine THAT ?

12 posted on 08/02/2011 10:55:56 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: count-your-change

actually, what they need is a cold sunny climate that will prevent evaporation.

Maybe that is what they are going after in New Mexico, there are some areas in the north that are cold but as sunny as the hot areas.


13 posted on 08/02/2011 10:56:05 PM PDT by dila813
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To: Titus-Maximus

Pons and Fleiceman,

at it again


14 posted on 08/02/2011 11:02:03 PM PDT by 50gunsalute
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They can do this at $60 per barrel, with no taxes and clean and renewable!

Not if Omama or his evil progeny the E.P.A. can get their evil grubby claws on it!!

Remember obummer's infamous vows to destroy everyone household budget by raising electric bills & to bankrupt all coal power plants.

15 posted on 08/02/2011 11:02:35 PM PDT by prophetic (0Bama = 1 illegal president = 32 illegal, unconstitutional & unnecessary CZARS to do his job!!)
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To: moonhawk

“What happens if this gets loose, in nature?”

Two headed Volkswagon Beetles?”

LMAO.


16 posted on 08/02/2011 11:22:16 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: ThirdMate

“If it gets loose, The oceans will turn to whiskey, and we can stay drunk all the time!”

Only,If the Irish do not beat us too it!


17 posted on 08/02/2011 11:23:39 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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Too bad ethanol ruins engines. I won’t ever use it unless there is no other alternative.

Joule claims to produce something closer to diesel or gasoline.

That's fine and dandy if they can do it without government subsidies. Energy is good. But green energy is a scam if I have to pay for in taxes. I'm willing to pay for it at the pump if the fossil alternative is more expensive, net of government intervention.

18 posted on 08/02/2011 11:23:47 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: knarf

“A co2 sucking organism turned loose?

What could happen?

all green things end ... including Kermit.

What will Miss Piggy do?

Oh ... she’ll be gone too.”

Plant food gone!


19 posted on 08/02/2011 11:25:45 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: Titus-Maximus
Your article kind of reminds me of this old good news / bad news joke:
The bad news: Martians have landed in Washington and taken control of the government.

The good news: Martians eat liberals, pee gasoline, and are heading west.

We'll see if the invention pans out ... but right now I don't think it's wise to hold one's breath until it does.
20 posted on 08/02/2011 11:27:27 PM PDT by Zakeet (The Wee Wee's real birth certificate got shredded with his Rezko mortgage records)
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