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Post subject: Can We Make Our Own Oil ?
 Posted: Aug 01, 2008 - 04:00 AM
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Posted: Aug 01, 2008 - 05:13 AM
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Location: I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.--Abraham Lincoln
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That is a great idea. I remember years ago when Walt Disney was still alive and W. D. World was still on the drawing board. He once told someone that he was going to show folks how to produce power from the the swamp lands that were in and around the properties where Disney World now sits.
I just hope that the car companies don't throw so much of a fit that the creators of this type of fuel go overseas with it. |
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Let's do it as a memorial to Joyce Mason
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Posted: Aug 01, 2008 - 05:37 AM
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This is the sort of news that I find exciting. The use of algae for biofuel was developed at a university in Virginia (UVa if I remember right)- and there is another plant (I forget the name) that grows in salt water that also can be used like the algae to make biofuel, or as animal feed (and I think it even can be eaten). There is a rich guy who is actually working hard to get this sort of stuff going- I was initially skeptical and expected it to be a scam or that he'd somehow get richer off of it. However, it seems I was wrong- that he's actually out to improve the world.
They've also learned that they can take things like animal offal and such from the stockyards and by putting it under extreme pressure and heat, turn it into crude oil!
I also read a couple of days ago that they've finally figured out how plants crack water into hydrogen and oxygen- the final steps and catalysts used in photosynthesis. This is also significant because it means it's possible they may be able to use this and make hydrogen efficiently- which means we could go to a hydrogen economy!
Now... if we could keep Big Oil from repressing these developments... |
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Posted: Aug 01, 2008 - 06:12 AM
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| maybe this technology could be used to help clean up our oceans, lakes. |
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Posted: Aug 01, 2008 - 04:50 PM
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| Hmmm... now there's an idea. The algae feeds on nutrients, which are a problem in many of the rivers and lakes. This could be a way we could take pollution and turn it right into something useful and valuable. |
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Posted: Aug 01, 2008 - 05:45 PM
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Location: "It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."~ G.K.C
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Intriguing Video, thanks LS! Now, the... "We Can(s)" spoken throughout the video, is this meant by theoretically or fact? Just would of like to seen the final product (i.e. a scientist pouring liquid algae into a Mack Truck) 
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