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doctorofghetto (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
It is all about logic and common sense into invention and/or improving a current technology and its system. I barely hear our politicians going for vegetable oil usage or the Sterlin Steam Engine. Search for on youtube: PAINSCourt's video on "Solar Chicken."
EverettsVLOG (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
around 44 min this guy completely ruined his credibility by trying to argue that things published in the jounral Science could be used to "back anything" . his 3 gal petro for 1 gal ethanol is wack, its slighly positive (~30% reduction in CO2) according to the jounral Science... which cites a meta-analysis (i.e. like 10 studies) which were complied by the dept. Energy and Agriculture.
commandersprocket (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I did some further research and their was a pilot plant launched in April 07. They had to shut it down because... get this... it was producing too much algae (and the algae extraction equipment was about twice as expensive as they thought it would be). Longer term that seems like a great problem to have, hopefully we'll see the extraction problem kicked.
Jaeh1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Valcent is pushing the edge of envelope with algae with their vertical process, which can be used to grow other crops as well. They have GREAT potential. I have heard about a company in CA that is building or built an algae oil refinery capable of processing 5 million gallons per month (don't quote me). A company in New Zealand has already gone commercial producing algae oil from municiple overflow sewage. Aquagrow or Aquaflow is the name of the company. MIT is tweeking a process as well.
commandersprocket (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Estimates for the cost of a gallon of gas inclusive of the cost to "protect" that oil are $8-$15. The US economy felt the initial shocks of becoming an oil importer in the 70s under Jimmy Carter, since then we've been living a "borrow and spend" lie.
commandersprocket (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Some waste is (has become) recyclable, newer reactors are high temperature reactors (not generation I and II reactors like 3 mile island or Chernobyl). There is more than 100 years worth of uranium reserves. There are still huge questions about what to do with the waste. There is also potential for fusion (more likely Bussard/Farnsworth Fusor than the tokamak style fusion reactor) and some interesting theory and research on Thorium based reactors (safer, less radioactive, cheaper fuel)
commandersprocket (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Valcent Products (Vertigro) has developed a way to grow more algae in the same square footage of land (and with more automation). As far as I know they don't have data from a real pilot plant and there are some people that find their production estimates mathematically unlikely. I hope they're not just blowing marketing smoke, but until I see real results with cost/barrel equivalents I'm going to be skeptical (they've announced a running bio reactor but not results).
commandersprocket (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
It also works in Greenland (and Iceland) because they have low population to natural energy ratio (geothermal, wind, wave, small scale hydro).
steam0001 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Hydogen works great in Greenland because they make electricty using geothermal sources.
kbs1138 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
electric diesel hybrids getting over 100 mpg and take incentives for reroofing your home with solar shingles ( oksolar d o t c o m / roof ) |
