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- borez, on 07/16/2009, -0/+4Interesting, but I'd like to know how efficient this is
i.e. energy put in to grow the stuff vs actually energy output of fuel recovered. - thatsgoodkarma, on 07/16/2009, -3/+6Tucson is a ***** hole.
- sancho320, on 07/16/2009, -3/+5Maybe this will help GM realize that there are other alternatives to turning everything into a Hybrid.
- malcolmlo, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2GO TUCSON! It is NOT a *****, you just have to go somewhere other than bars downtown. Tucson has the most beatiful parts of the Sonoran Desert!
But good job ASU! - MacParrot, on 07/16/2009, -1/+3It isn't always enough to be viable, it has to practical as well. That means bringing the cost of production lower than what it takes to make other fuels or near enough to where it doesn't matter. The US govt could certainly use this as an alternative, but there's no way any major airliner is going to cripple themselves by adding MORE costs to a ticket as compared to their competitors.
- Enterres, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2In the not so distant future i can forsee glass grain silos filled with algae all over the world. With a central distribution hub for conversion to bio-diesel it would be an automatic process - just add algae, methanol, and lye and the machine would mix it all up with heat under pressure and completely self sustained.
Numerous do-it-yourselfers have proven time and again that their at home biodiesel production is competitive vs fossil diesel not counting the gov't subsidization and wars fought to keep the prices down. The only reason my vision is not already a reality is because of the same reason that the electric car didn't happen sooner.
In any case, i'm happy to see that they can even make jet fuel now without resorting to using 1000s of coconuts, like that Richard Branson dude did. - lajb85, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1Or now you can just put him in his car powered by the technology he invented.
- inactive, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1I smell jealousy here.
- MacParrot, on 07/16/2009, -1/+2Why stop with GM?
- dccabs, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1I see the level of education in Tucson is far superior.
- WildcatDigger, on 07/16/2009, -7/+8How do you get the ASU grad off your front lawn?
Pay him for the pizza. - slashingax, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1wow how original.. +1 for you a-hole
- yocouchdigga, on 07/16/2009, -3/+3480, raise ya hands up!
Tucson blows. - evodevo1, on 07/16/2009, -3/+2Dude, this is old news, everyone and their grandma is trying algae for biofuels. These ASU guys are way late to the game.
- slashingax, on 07/16/2009, -2/+1give tucson back to mexico
- erichq2, on 07/16/2009, -3/+2Tucson does suck. That's why ASU is in TEMPE, not Tucson. Technically the ASU in the article is in Mesa, but oh well. It's still not Tucson.
- Danoz, on 07/16/2009, -4/+3Aaaaaaand 10 years from now, planes will still be using conventional jet fuel as it puts the dollars into the pockets of the oil corporations.
Right now there's a boardroom full of oilies laughing, while throwing cash in the air, burning hazardous chemicals, torturing cute animals AND planning the cheapest most efficient way to buy this technology so noone else can use it. - cselph, on 07/16/2009, -4/+3Really? ASU has scientists?
- AlexXxZ, on 07/16/2009, -7/+2Phoenix sucks. Yes Tempe is a part of Phoenix, the whole place is a hot disgusting ***** place of a city.
- danreeves, on 07/16/2009, -13/+4ASU can solve the world's oil crisis, but being from Tucson, AZ I still have to say:
"***** you ASU!! Go Wildcats! "
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