OPEC shaking in their slippers?

[voluptuary_manque]

"It is not yet the beginning of the end but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." -- Winston Churchill


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7817849.stm

 

[rgraham666]

We can only hope.

 

[gauchecritic]

Or maybe it should be us quaking.

Al;gae produces something like 80% of the earths oxygen. ooer!

 

[slyc_willie]

I'm thinking I might want to start a jatropha farm . . . .

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Or maybe it should be us quaking.

Al;gae produces something like 80% of the earths oxygen. ooer!

Exactly. And when farmed, it can only do the job faster and more efficiently. Additionally, carbon from algae farms will not be "fossil fuel" but constantly recycled ending carbon dioxide buildup. So why are you quaking?

 

[gauchecritic]

Exactly. And when farmed, it can only do the job faster and more efficiently. Additionally, carbon from algae farms will not be "fossil fuel" but constantly recycled ending carbon dioxide buildup. So why are you quaking?

Why farm it when it's up for grabs?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Why farm it when it's up for grabs?

Harvesting any wild organism is always more expensive, and ecologically questionable, than farming that organism. The current plan is to convert at least one U.S. oil refinery to algae production, specifically for the airlines. That's why beef is cheaper than bison . . . or venison imported from New Zealand.

 

[off2bed]

Jatropha grows in poor soil, so does that include the sand of the Middle East?