Comments on: Algae: Forever the Fuel of the Future

By: Algae for energy? | Koi fish pond

Algae for energy? | Koi fish pond — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:51:27 +0000

[...] how much is algae fuel going for at the moment? In a blog post for CEI, Horner puts it at $425 a gallon, which is well above regular gasoline’s near $4 average. [...]

By: BobRGeologist

BobRGeologist — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:42:18 +0000

We have plenty of carbon based fuels to last us more than 100 years if the knot-head in the white house would quit listening to the green lobby. If we use it carefully we can stretch it out to more than 200 years. With advanced battery technology we can pick up most of the slack with solar. The “ring of fire” around the Pacific will be very long lived source of geothermal generated electricity. The sooner we can rid ourselves of this stupid fear of CO2 and greenhouse gases and accept the fact climates have always fluctuated and put this wasted money in energy research. A study of the Pleistocene ice ages is clear to me that this fear of our planet getting too warm is not in the cards. Our world is overpopulated by a factor of 4x if we all can expect to live on the scale of western civilization. We are in interglacial stage No. 5. and have iced
polar regions, we are due sooner or later to ice down to the 40 deg N. latitude for a long, long time. If we cannot find how to control the fusion reaction our species could be back to hunter / gathering.

By: Durwood M. Dugger

Durwood M. Dugger — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:37:32 +0000

Actually, you’re right about being held captive by a cartel to grow algae – and grow anything else like food. The worlds largest phosphate reserves are in N. Africa and the Middle East and China. The price of phosphates of course are determined by the fuels (petroleum) used to mine them. Once again folks – biofuels are petroleum – one way or another.