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- tbhurst, on 09/29/2008, -0/+20The algae needs coal pollution you say? That shouldn't be a problem.
- Gemfinder, on 09/30/2008, -0/+11Yep.
The plan is to...plant more plants.
Rooves, window boxes, reclaim traffic islands. Google "guerilla gardening" and "gaia bombs." For $10 worth of seeds, you can turn your local dirtpatch into a riot of CO2 devouring, oxygen-producing plants! - allaboutdatiki, on 09/29/2008, -0/+11Pond Scum ... is there ANYTHING it can't do? Algae biofuel FTW!
- samotage, on 09/29/2008, -0/+9I hope to hell they can make this work. Though what happens to the carbon captured, does it all end up getting re-released back into our air when the biodiesel is burnt?
- zedkitty, on 09/30/2008, -0/+7yes carbon is released...but it is a two-for...twice the energy expended for the same amount of carbon.
- arensquared, on 09/30/2008, -0/+5You mean Algae will turn Pollution into fuel?
- ginestony, on 09/30/2008, -1/+6DIGG: Curing cancer and saving the environment daily since 2004
- thcobbs, on 09/30/2008, -0/+4You mean... use a naturally occurring CO2 cycle to recycle CO2???? BRILLIANT!
- majortom1981, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3Then after you burn it again couldn't you just use the algae to collect the carbon again?
- BlanKz, on 09/30/2008, -1/+4Jesus: "For my next miracle, I'm gonna turn water into FUN!"
*Disco music* - FlyingPhotog, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2I love this idea! My only concern is that to grow algae, you need parge pools of stagnant water, which are also likely to be breeding grounds to mosquitos. I hope they can balance the algae growth with pest control.
- hamobu, on 09/30/2008, -1/+3Actually algae take nitrates to grow too.
Plus you can't fix everything all at once. - Butterball, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2Ummmm, I hate to bring this up but this isnt the first time this has been done. It is a great thing, but the Redhawk natural gas plant out of Phoenix, AZ has been doing this for a while.
But still a good thing to spread to more dirty plants. - id000001, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2Solar panel still causes a lot of pollution on the production of those panels.
It is not exactly pollution free. - inactive, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Biofuels are only being considered because they use Internal Combustion Engines. There's none of that "thinking" involved, as you'd get from electric cars.
- inactive, on 09/30/2008, -1/+2And then you turn it back into pollution again...
- SilverBlade2k, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Just how long before Exxon or Shell comes in to buy these guys?
- XStatic, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Internal combustion with liquid fuels such as diesel makes a lot more sense for many uses because of the energy stored compared to weight and the relative safety of storing and transporting the fuel.
For example a diesel electric train which I am sure you have seen the ads can move a ton of freight 436 miles on a gallon. - Stormwern, on 09/30/2008, -1/+2"Just like you and I breathe in oxygen to make energy, algae breathe in carbon dioxide to make energy."
CO2 is more like food, the energy comes from sunlight. - eld3esq, on 09/30/2008, -1/+2If they are going to burn coal for energy, at least using algae to collect the carbon is a good thing. But, maybe they should use it as an organic fertilizer instead of turning it onto another fuel to burn. Better solution: Stop burning coal...beyond the greenhouse and air pollution implications, coal extraction is an unbelievably destructive process.
- loisln77, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1I really love this idea. Seems to solve two big problems at once: pollution and a source of fuel.
- nofate2029, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Such innovations like these is what needs to be focused on more in the media. This is HUGE! Such advancements like this is whats really going to cut our dependency on foreign oil.
- inactive, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Since algae oil can be made into all the stuff that is made from underground oil, we're not adding to the pollution by releasing the CO2 trapped in the underground oil.
And the stuff left over when the oil is extracted can be used as animal feed or fertilizer. - thcobbs, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1I know it can't not stink.
- inactive, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1So its ok for an expensive (you will pay for it) 30% better solution when Solar Energy can be 100% clean at the end of the day?
- hamobu, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1MIT has been doing this for years as well. I even saw something like this on PBS.
- linksus, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Jesus: "For my next miracle, I'm gonna turn water into FUN!"
Wasn't it Funk not Fun ? - lornali, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1This is truly a "green" factory
- Butterball, on 09/30/2008, -0/+0link to article about how the algae from said plants are 37x as effective for creating biofuel as corn, with the side effect of pulling most of the greenhouse gasses out of the plant.
http://www.biofuelreview.com/content/view/1230/ - TJ11240, on 09/30/2008, -3/+3Everyone forgets about the particulate matter, mercury, SOx, NOx, and radioactive emissions that also come along with the CO2. I doubt algae can take care of that. This is like trying to bail out a sinking ship with a bucket.
- rdwinder, on 09/30/2008, -0/+0full steam ahead! or coal pollution in this case
- spectxim, on 09/30/2008, -0/+0With how much pollution we create; we'll soon be over-ran with algae.
- mancduff, on 09/30/2008, -1/+0Build a chimney into space instead of a space elevator.
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