The Algae That Saved the Planet

The Valcent Products Corporation in El Paso, TX is leading the way to energy independence for the USA. This video is a MUST WATCH for serious environmentalists and those who care about their nation. Wacko extremist environmentalists, ie: Sierra Club, EDF, Earth First etc need not watch... you're too far gone already!

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Science & Technology

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• environment
• green
• energy
• alternatives
• biofuels

[hydra8888]

@UniversePirate Protista

[UniversePirate]

@hydra8888 it doesn't imply it being a plant, algae belong to the Protozoa kingdom

[sardonicbynature]

lets send those ass hole arabs back to the stone age.

[jwallbanger]

@anubis2814 yeah they need closed ponds to avoid contamination if using special strains that produce oil and methane (>>methanol,) but it makes a lot more sense even to make ethanol from algae biomass the than from corn or soy which is an absolutely terrible method for too many reasons to list.

we have lots of dry coastal wasteland where we can grow algae in seawater. it can be done next to coal, gas and oil power plants and feed the CO2 to the algae, make fuel and the byproduct is fresh water!

[anubis2814]

@jwallbanger Bioreactors are needed for fuels like gasoline and jet fuel. Open ponds are good for biomass as a coal replacement.

[jwallbanger]

seems like a good idea for the future, but currently we have large amounts of coastal wasteland perfect for large algae ponds, which don't require such a complicated expensive set up as this is. once algae fuel really takes off and this land gets more scarce this will be a good alternative to try.

[ifarcast]

INVEST IN THIS INVEST INVEST INVEST INVEST!!!

[De4sher]

@anger42 however you wanna put it, why don't you go and find that chemical reaction that doesn't conserve energy, and then come back.

physics is the the theory behind chemistry. without quantum mechanics, the theory of electromagnetism, and thermodynamics chemistry is alchemy.

but even if i am wrong about everything, if there was such thing as free energy, nature would have found that reaction long ago my friend, so best wishes to those that wanna find something like that.

[anger42]

@De4sher not to burst your bubble but physics doesn't apply very much here as much as chemistry would. Seeing as how physics studys the natural motion of matter through time and space and chemistry is more focused on the composition, behaivior, structure and properties of matter when it undergoes a chemical reaction...which is what the algae does when it gets turned into fuel.

[De4sher]

@davedavedaveannoy1

zero point energy is BS, and physics is my field (just graduated)

synthetic petroleum is great, just gotta get those bacteria to start producing some :)