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142 comments on A little more on algae

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Engineer-Poet on August 17, 2006 - 10:19pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
You realize, of course, that if this works it's curtains for the oil companies, Hugo Chavez and the sheiks too?

I like the idea but after seeing little movement from the proponents at UNH I want to see more in the way of data, working examples, all the little caveats which factor into all real systems, etc.

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Darwinian on August 18, 2006 - 8:16am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
You realize, of course, that if this works it's curtains for the oil companies, Hugo Chavez and the sheiks too?

Nonsense, no matter how cheap you can make the manufacturing oil from alge process it will never be as cheap as just finding in in the ground and pulling it out.

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Engineer-Poet on August 18, 2006 - 8:20am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Even if that was true (if so, why were so many stripper wells shut down before prices shot up recently?), it still wouldn't prevent the producers' income from going down the crapper.
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