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Wolfric on August 17, 2006 - 2:37pm

Regarding your comment, we would need a little more fact based argument. What do you consider "shit"? Is it the biodiesel algae? The actual information contained in the podcast?

It may be the 2 barrels/acre/day of production statement?

You know in order to not be considered an IRC channel, comments and critics need to be well stated also. We need to be more fact based in our statements. If you go to the cellulosic ethanol thread, you will see lots of questions and idea exchanged on the possibility of biodiesel from algae.

As for taking us seriously, It will be harder for me to take you seriously if you cannot articulate something more accuratly. Credibility is obtained trough good communication and comprehension. For having good communication, real physical presence is needed. Nevertheless, the kind of interaction in a blog allow for a certain amount of good communication, albeit less optimal, more efficient for reaching a large number of people. For attaining that kind of credibility, please write clearer messages and use better language.

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Engineer-Poet on August 17, 2006 - 9:19pm

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 - 7:16am

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 - 7:20am

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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