Cliff Rohrabacher
01-17-2008, 6:22 PM
Pond scum~!!
Yipper skipper Hung in sheet incubators in the sun the stuff can currently produce up to 10,000 gallons of oil per acre and can be grown virtually anywhere. All you need is space and sunlight. You can increase the yield dramatically by building it into taller and taller structures.
The reason it's carbon neutral is because the algae takes carbon fro the air and then when you burn it that carbon is released only to be recaptured again by more pond scum. So in the short and long run it's carbon neutral.
It is cost effective in that you get more $$ in fuel than you spend producing it, AND you don't consume more oil producing it than you get.
And best-est of all it is very easy to do. IT is so easy all you need poly bags sonicly welded to produce lots of long channels through which you can use a little tiny pump to circulate the water growth medium.
You can grow it in tanks or in between glass sheets too. There is an infinite variety of ways to grow algae. Most all are cheap and very low tech. Even places like the Gobi Desert can produce boatloads of the fuel - and food.
The stuff is also edible - world hunger any one?
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/nov2007/gb20071121_358781.htm?chan=rss_topDiscussed_ssi_5
http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?type=article&article_id=218392633
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-30166620071026
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WgFiVmNCoE
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2007/08/pond-scum-makes.html
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Using_Pond_Scum_To_Fuel_Our_Future_999.html
As food:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go2522/is_200201/ai_n6725958
http://wwwcomm.murdoch.edu.au/synergy/0602/healthfood.html
http://www.life.ca/nl/68/algae.html
http://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20051229/pond-scum-ally-in-alzheimers-fight
Yipper skipper Hung in sheet incubators in the sun the stuff can currently produce up to 10,000 gallons of oil per acre and can be grown virtually anywhere. All you need is space and sunlight. You can increase the yield dramatically by building it into taller and taller structures.
The reason it's carbon neutral is because the algae takes carbon fro the air and then when you burn it that carbon is released only to be recaptured again by more pond scum. So in the short and long run it's carbon neutral.
It is cost effective in that you get more $$ in fuel than you spend producing it, AND you don't consume more oil producing it than you get.
And best-est of all it is very easy to do. IT is so easy all you need poly bags sonicly welded to produce lots of long channels through which you can use a little tiny pump to circulate the water growth medium.
You can grow it in tanks or in between glass sheets too. There is an infinite variety of ways to grow algae. Most all are cheap and very low tech. Even places like the Gobi Desert can produce boatloads of the fuel - and food.
The stuff is also edible - world hunger any one?
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/nov2007/gb20071121_358781.htm?chan=rss_topDiscussed_ssi_5
http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?type=article&article_id=218392633
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-30166620071026
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WgFiVmNCoE
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2007/08/pond-scum-makes.html
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Using_Pond_Scum_To_Fuel_Our_Future_999.html
As food:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go2522/is_200201/ai_n6725958
http://wwwcomm.murdoch.edu.au/synergy/0602/healthfood.html
http://www.life.ca/nl/68/algae.html
http://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20051229/pond-scum-ally-in-alzheimers-fight