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  • competitor to oil = wishful thinking.

    besides, oil IS millions of years of accumulated algae & other 'biofuel'. how can renewable fuel ever match what civilization is used to from splurging a 'lottery win'

  • alge competing with oil? not in a million years

  • how is algae carbon neutral when it produces oxygen the entire growth cycle.

  • @ranskye1 the growth will make oxygen while using co2, then the burning will release co2 back into the atmosphere. growth and burning it should equal out co2 and make it carbon neutral

  • @ranskye1 i hear you. though ash is made up of carbon compounds and other locked up minerals, then the carbon compounds in ash would need to be assimilated later and then put back into the air. if we burn oil, but we make some kind of building material from the other material left over after oil extraction rather than use as a feedstock, then we can lock the carbon up. that to me might mean it is better than carbon neutral.

  • If I were the head of BP, guess what I'd start trying to produce? No more starting wars in other countries for their resources, no more transportation overseas, and you can bet people would love your company and support you.

  • how long till we can start using this stuff?

  • Algae can replace oil when you are ready. Let their be light of solar light. And it was so.

  • We 100% need technology and research like this.

    But that is no excuse not to take military-level action, such as:

    reducing overpopulation by mandating vasectomies

    outlawing factory farming: meat is murder

    outlawing any new gas-powered cars be built

    outlawing coal-fired power plants

    outlawing hydraulic gas fractionating

    mandating an electric infrastructure powered by wind and solar

  • @mphello You should be the first one to get a Vasectomy

  • @Shawneha I already have, so I'm not a hypocrite. Pro-animal rights vegans and anti-overpopulation activists are never hypocritical. Only meat-eaters and breeders who dare make moral and legal judgements against others for far more trivial things than the crime of eating meat and overpopulating.

  • @Shawneha I already have. But religionists like TheDog9892 and you should have your balls cut off without anesthesia. Meat-eaters should not be allowed to breed. I think putting them into prison for life is fun and funny.

  • @mphello Meat = yummy not murder, you need to get a real job hippie, and do you want america to be as bad as the worst dictatorships in the world

  • @TheDog9892 And child rapists think having sex with children is fun, and meat-eaters are 1000X worse. Meat-eaters never contributed to society, because they steal more than they have ever producers.

    You just want to force YOUR laws down everybody else's throats, but hypocrite anti-animal meat-eaters whine and complain if somebody does the same to them.

  • @mphello Wow, you bring child rapists in this (i wonder if you are one) Well lets just say all the meat eaters in world died leaving hippies to to the jobs that us meat eaters had to do they would be the ones whining saying "no more vending machines, aw man I needed my 7-up after I just smoked a CRAP load of pot" there would be so much smoke in the air from people smoking pot that you guys would make planet earth WAY WORSE then it already is. And did you know that humans are OMNIVORES!

  • @TheDog9892 Oh and by the way did you know that there is another planet that is waiting for us? MARS!

    mars is the best place because it has 23 hours and 30 minuets in a day, it used (and probably still does have) to have water AND life but Obama bin laden thinks that humans will be just fine in 100 years well let me tell you something, That clock is ticking and if we don't find someplace fast the people on earth just end up killing each other because they can.

  • @TheDog9892 You obviously hate free speech. And nothing wrong with being a hippy. No different than being a Jew or African American. And, did you know that humans are responsible for their actions, therefore, they can be whatever the fuck they want to be? But shitheads like you who never did a day of hard work in your lives cannot grasp that. Shitheads equate being vegan for animal rights with hippies, even though they have nothing to do with each others, shows ...

  • @TheDog9892 .. that you are a worthless bag of prejudices.

  • @mphello OK shithead You know why i have never done a day of hard work in my life because i'm 12 FREAKIN YEARS OLD! and you know why i tied animal rights to hippies because that's what hippies do is smoke pot and protest for non senescent animals. And you know why i don't like the right for free speech, THE LIBERAL MEDIA they control america by making people think that saying the word black is racist, and that being a catholic is bad and being gay is good. WTF! (you need to think about mars)

  • @TheDog9892 And you conservatives all hate black people. Conservatives control media.

    Show me the Socialist and Communist parties given equal airtime on tv.

    Show me when ads by Peta to oppose meat are given equal airtime to commercials for meat.

    You don't know any "hippies". Next, you will start hating and blaming Jews and Mexicans and teachers and farmers and bikers for all problems.

    Now, obviously, you've got the brain of a 2-year old but the body of a 99-year old.

  • @mphello MY ASS! the only conservatives have is FOX, and why do you keep bringing up Jews? I like Jews they are the founder in the belief in our father, god. Mexicans are FUN! and yes I have the mind of a 2 year old

  • @TheDog9892 What a piece of shit you are. Children have no rights. Why can't they vote? If they had rights, they'd vote and fight in wars. That proves children are worthless and subhuman and have no sentience.

  • @mphello I have more sentience than you, thats all i'll say

  • better keep your head down-big oil will try & shut you down.....sad but true

  • water ways near factory farms that have been made toxic, would be a good source. but what is the waste from this process?

  • Hey let's burn coal to grow algae at night! NOT

  • i remember breaking down Algae when i used sea salt water in my hygrogen genorator

  • I saw a one presentation where artifical light was used to grow the algae in a sugar based system. It seems algaes 2 day cycle to oil should become cost effective, if the scale of production where increased to the million barrel a day range. How many facilities would be required to receive 1 million barrels of oil?

  • Does manufacture location matter? Could each state produce biodiesel for algae? Tar Sand oil production could increase to 10% by 2025. Will this increase in oil production have a net affect on biodiesel?

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  • @davepamn Essentially no; you can grow algae anywhere. The problem comes in that the further from the equator you are, the less intense the sunlight. There is some research into using low light adapted algae for these locations, and different states can devote more or less land to production, but I think that there will still be some need for exchange between states.

  • To answer the title: No. Finnish oil company Neste Oil has a huge facility that grows algae and makes biodiesel from it. The problem is that to replace all use of fossil fuel the total area of growing vats need to be the size of the state of Kentucky.

  • Love it!!

    Great video -- keep it up! We need to invest more in these industries but in California, but prop 23 is a threat to those investments. Prop 23 is down in the polls, but the Yes on 23 campaign just got a new influx of hot, anonymous cash, so we'll need to fend them off in the home stretch to Election Day.

    Hit me back if you'd like to talk Prop 23. We're coming out with a bunch of great No on Prop 23 videos soon!

    - prop23FAIL

  • I suspect that artificial light to grow the algae probably doesn't make sense except nich cases such as in space where you would use a solar array to power LEDs because the radiation would fry the algae and the vacume and cold / heat of space would be too hard to build a suitable "window" for the batches. One exception would be a filtered light pipe system like fiber optics with a filter for UV and other harmful radiation. On earth, Fiber optics can send sunlight deeper into the vats / ponds.

  • One issue I have with using artificial light is that you are using electricity, which is probably comming from coal. Let the sun provide the light. The algae needs a dark cycle anyways.

  • People will buy this fuel if they know it would run well and wont damage their engines and 2 is cheaper or competitively priced per gallon with regular gasoline/diesel.

  • so now we'll have algae fields instead of oil fields, how ugly!

    You can make this stuff @ home (very easily), we don't need to invent a new industry. but the big algae producers are intent on destroying as much of the natural landscape as they can by increasing their production to massive scales, their desire for the loot is insatiable I can only imagine. easy money is the reason for worlds problems, see?

  • why do you see profit as evil. A human can live on pennies a day be poor and never be in a position to help anyone, i see poverty as evil. Be rest assured the government will take 35 percent and give it to poor Americans and poor countries. just like they do to big oil.

    My news yesterday, Oklahoma tax from big oil greatest in our history. No state deficits.

  • ... I bet the human+bike would wipe the floor with the others

  • i'd be interested to compare land+algae->biofuel+car

    versus land+grass->horse

    versus

     land+corn->human+bicycle

  • There was university east coast that developed a smoke stack gas cleaner. What it is a long clear plastic pipe that you run the exhaust through water and you put a small amount a algae in the tube and the algae grows and fills the pipe. You get clean a lot of the pollutions out of the exhaust. Would it ever supply all the algae you would need? I drought it.

  • "uh uh" lol

  • Check out Jeffriano

  • These guys are going to have to lobby to have the Laws of Thermodynamics repealed.

  • Google Project 10100 needs to support this idea and make it reality.

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  • great idea. hope they can produce it economically in 5 years.

  • Someone said "How can we go really green?" So it was either this or boogers.

  • sounds like a good idea

  • growing it with lights seems strange, can you get more energy off the oil you skim from the top than you need to power the lights? The answer has to be no, without some form of chemical catalyst

  • That is for research only.

    But you hit the nail on the head accidentally. This needs lots land for sunlight something many countries and cities do not have. We may also have the situation of people cutting down trees to grow algae...

  • algae could be grown vertically, to minimize areas

  • as well as passed through a circulation system from a reservoir.

  • as well as it grows... like ..everywhere : D

  • mine it from existing dams, mabey

  • @Flirmy: actually a catalyst wouldn't help. It's a Second Law problem. Some energy is dissipated in ANY process which does ANY work. Energy out can never equal energy in unless there was stored energy there to begin with which gets released by the process.

  • @Flirmy Those little glow rods? I'm sure you could produce enough oil to power them all day. Or better yet you could use solar power during the day and a tiny fraction of the oil produced overnight.

  • @Flirmy Well Their still developing the fuel and probably want to beat others to the punch so they use artifical light to increase growth rates

  • @Flirmy I think plants use a catalyst in the process of photosyntheses it's self.

  • @Flirmy i think this is about making fuel for pre existing vehicles...so lets say there using wind power or hydro power to power the lights so they can make algae round the clock...there nothing wrong with that after al they dont make co2....but what your saying is right you never get more energy than you put in...thats true its all about just making as much fuel as possible to make it competitive with petroleum oil...so we can stop fucking the world up

  • @Flirmy If I know my thermodynamics right, using artificial light would be extremely inefficient. First, energy is degraded generating electricity, then degraded further converting the electricity to light (some becomes heat). Finally there would be a lot of irony if the electricity is generated from a fossil fuel or future algae fuel power plant. The only benefit I could see of using artificail light would be to meet production deadlines in a pinch, or for research purposes.

  • @Flirmy

    cant you just use solar panels to charge batteries to power the lights? which requires NO energy to produce (except sunlight which is FREE)

  • oil companies have the lockdown on all alternative power

    so no

  • All so called free media report exactly what is planned and controlled from the beginning by "big money". That's why all alt energy inventions are reported as potential, never as viable and feasible, even if they are already in production in Europe.

  • ★★★★★

  • sounds good

  • phyco is one letter away from psycho

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