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143 comments on Biofuel Conference Call Including a New Biodiesel from Algae

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SamuM on August 23, 2008 - 2:22am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I really hope C. Venter is right. However, I find it curious he thinks he can do it in 18 months, when the evolution could not make them in 4 billion years. Just based on computational time alone, I think his team is just way out of time.

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NeverLNG on August 23, 2008 - 10:21am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Is C Venter smarter than God? I don't know, ask him.

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Cretaceous on August 24, 2008 - 10:31am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I asked Him, and he doesn't know who C Venter is...
;-)

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Gail the Actuary on August 23, 2008 - 11:53am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

This is a website that seems to be on something similar. I don't know about the timeframe, though.

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kdolliso on August 23, 2008 - 12:26pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

It looks to me like that operation would keep, maybe, 100,000 high-mileage cars on the road.

That's a big wind-farm. How many Prius's would 240 Meawatts fuel if you went straight to the grid.

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weatherman on August 24, 2008 - 5:59pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Evolution didn't do it because it had no reason to. What is the competative advantage to survival for a microbe in producing biofuel?

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