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BioDiesel on January 30, 2006 - 3:37am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Also a good article here from NASA about phytoplankton and hurricanes

Just more checks and balances that the earth has.  As hurricanes increase it stirs up the ocean causing more phytoplankton to bloom.
Phytoplankton is where half our Oxy comes from.  Now I see why all this talk about biofuels coming from algae, is so big.

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eric blair on January 30, 2006 - 1:17pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Now I see why all this talk about biofuels coming from algae, is so big.

Problems with Algae:

  1. De-wetting the oil-algae
  2. Energy/materials needed to contain the growing algae  (including the land set aside)
  3. Most of the 'cost effective' projects are using CO2 output from some other burning hydrocarbon event going on.

I was 'excited' by algae - until I looked into the need for non CO2 feedstocks, location and energy investment needed to make the algae holding areas.  

Then I became less excited.

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