MCH1984 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Doofus.

omahh1 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

lame

sonyarose8 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

I just read an article in the LA Times about Fuel may eventually go green with algae; this could be our fuel of the future. I read that scientists are racing now to develop an alternative due to high petroleum prices. Many agree that the potential is huge and maybe profitable in a few years from now. I believe that some of our big problems can be solved. It just takes times and investment.

veldomort (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

1Us Dollar=100 something Yen 1 Dollar=0.8 or 0.9 euros1 dollar= 8 yuanand no clue for rupees

peyotero22 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

we just need to start major reforestation measures. trees naturally filter co2 and grow BIGGER in the process.

awol09 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

youur an idiot. its a carbon neutral system. any carbon released due to burning biodiesel has been trapped a couple month before by the algae. and in a way, it is carbon positive. less than 50% of the algae cell is actually the oil, so the algae is trapping more carbon than we get to burn

siliconaconcarne (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Yes there are all over the world, but breathing not burning!! Can you imaging if we can produce all the algae we want and made them burn to move our cars?? When you breath you produce CO2, but when you burn you produce 1000000 times more CO2. Hidrogen its the only way.

wonderalex (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

mother nature will help us reduce CO2 if we stopped using mineral oil. U forgot there r algae in ocean and rivers?

Grak70 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Indeed, all those benefits should enter the analysis. My point was that this video portrayed the implementation in an experimental setup as an online technology. This is simply false. The fact that scale-up of pilot facilities invariably changes the cost is all I wanted to point out. This video portrays algae as a messiah technology, which it is not (yet).

desertblbuesman (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

But in it's fulfilled potential, it will also yield fertilizer, another petro chemical replacement, Food directly, fuel, as well as the negligible CO2 reduction and make Oxygen. It has potential. Plant construction, including embedded energy in materials as well as the plants operating energy requirement etc also need to enter the cost analysis. I think it needs continued effort. From what I gather, it is all about working the algae strains. I will always hope for algae too, and am optimistic.