Michael said: Why not just pump it out of the ground? #------------------------------
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Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Terry_Farrar <http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Terry_Farrar> #--------------------------------------- Regards, LelandJ On 07/26/2010 12:30 PM, Michael Madigan wrote: > Why not just pump it out of the ground? > > --- On Mon, 7/26/10, Leland Jackson<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> From: Leland Jackson<[email protected]> >> Subject: [OT] Exploring Algae as Fuel >> To: "ProFox Email List"<[email protected]> >> Date: Monday, July 26, 2010, 11:57 AM >> There is much interest and capital >> investment today devoted towards >> engineering algae that could be refined into biodiesel. >> However, the >> genetic engineering of a superalgae to be put into >> production carries >> potential risks. The below excerpt is from the NY Times. >> See the link >> towards the bottom of the page to go to the article. >> >> >> #-------------------------------------------------- >> Excerpt: >> >> Foreign genes are being spliced into algae and native genes >> are being >> tweaked. >> >> Different strains of algae are pitted against one another >> in >> survival-of-the-fittest contests in an effort to accelerate >> the >> evolution of fast-growing, hardy strains. >> >> The goal is nothing less than to create superalgae, highly >> efficient at >> converting sunlight and carbon dioxide into lipids and oils >> that can be >> sent to a refinery and made into diesel or jet fuel. >> >> “We’ve probably engineered over 4,000 strains,” said >> Mike Mendez, a >> co-founder and vice president for technology at Sapphire >> Energy, the >> owner of the laboratory. “My whole goal here at Sapphire >> is to >> domesticate algae, to make it a crop.” >> >> Dozens of companies, as well as many academic laboratories, >> are pursuing >> the same goal — to produce algae as a source of, >> literally, green >> energy. And many of them are using genetic engineering or >> other >> biological techniques, like chemically induced mutations, >> to improve how >> algae functions. >> >> “There are probably well over 100 academic efforts to use >> genetic >> engineering to optimize biofuel production from algae,” >> said Matthew C. >> Posewitz, an assistant professor of chemistry at the >> Colorado School of >> Mines, who has written a review of the field. “There’s >> just intense >> interest globally.” >> >> Algae are attracting attention because the strains can >> potentially >> produce 10 or more times more fuel per acre than the corn >> used to make >> ethanol or the soybeans used to make biodiesel. Moreover, >> algae might be >> grown on arid land and brackish water, so that fuel >> production would not >> compete with food production. And algae are voracious >> consumers of >> carbon dioxide, potentially helping to keep some of this >> greenhouse gas >> from contributing to global warming. >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/business/energy-environment/26algae.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&emc=th >> >> or >> >> http://tinyurl.com/2dvj3qk >> >> #--------------------------------------------- >> >> Regards, >> >> LelandJ >> >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. 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