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Nov 15, 2007 | 11:14 PM

Bdox

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Oil from algae

It says here, that you can get 20,000 gal of vegtable oil per acre per year.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...deoid=18989607

Nov 16, 2007 | 01:17 AM

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Wow! He said that if you used acreage 1/10 the size of New Mexico to grew algae it would supply all of the energy needs for the entire U.S. What's the catch? Why aren't we persuing this asap?

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Nov 16, 2007 | 01:24 AM

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Yeah, pretty amazing stuff. You would need a pretty big investment to close it up to keep other strains of algae from mixing in. But still the energy concentration is terrific!

Nov 16, 2007 | 03:13 AM

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Bdox:

Your message box is full. Pull the flush handle!

Nov 16, 2007 | 04:48 AM

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Quote:

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Wow! He said that if you used acreage 1/10 the size of New Mexico to grew algae it would supply all of the energy needs for the entire U.S. What's the catch? Why aren't we persuing this asap?

Water is predicted to be a bigger crisis than oil. He talks about evaporative loss as well as cross species contaminants. That would be a big hurdle to deal with.

Nov 16, 2007 | 07:24 AM

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Did I hear him say that stagnant, fetid environments are the best for growing the algae?......And 1/10 the size of New Mexico.......Let's just cover New Jersey in algae!!!.....

Nov 16, 2007 | 09:27 AM

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Its very pie in the sky right now. There isn't technology for extraction and growth on a large scale. There was a TV show detailing this technology, and in it they (begrudgingly) admitted its not viable right now.