This ocean thing has been around for a while http://www.nrel.gov/learning/re_ocean.html OTEC (as opposed to OPEC). The way I see it, oil companies have too much of a vested interest to keep us on fossils - when Raymond can retire with $400 mil, that ain't chump change - esp for ONE guy! Of course, that keeps us over the proverbial barrel, but somebody's making mondo for it...
Yeah, nothing new. He is a paper from a professor at University of New Hampshire describing how our whole country could be fueled from biodiesel. http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html There are many energy sources that are being surpressed. This is just one example.
Sounds like their marketing team finnaly hit a homerun with this bullshyt. Next thing we know some small company in new jersey will claim they can produce aids vacines out of nuclear waste
Hi al: Here is a link to something that is almost a direct replacement to regular grade gas. The next step up from ethanol. It can use existing pipelines where ethanol can't and has more energy per gal then ethanol. It lacks political support right now. I'd rather use this then ethanol. agpilot http://www.butanol.com/
Well for one thing, how is it clean if it's oil? For another, it's all bullsh*t till they actually have some product ready for testing. And they are not the first to pump up this plankton stuff. People keep searching for renewable clean alternative fuel sources yet the top candidates have been out there for decades, mainly solar & wind. Geothermal is pretty good also. Hydro is sh*t, most of the time cause it destroys the ecology of regions. Check out India hydroelectrilization projects, villages just wiped out. Same happened in USSR pats of US, etc. Ethanol is pure sh*t, it's dirty, not that cheap and has a highly destructive effect on the soil. Brazil is now dealing with a lot of the problems from their program, lot of agricultural & economic consequences. Biodiesel is not much better. Clean coal technology is cleaner but still not that clean. Global warming will be in critical mode in 10-20 years. If the people really want to make a real differences, messing around with "cleaner" sources is a waste of time when the cleanest sources are already out there.
it's renewable oil, it takes as much co2 from the atmosphere as it returns. therefore it's "clean". agree about the ethanol etc. solar is not an option yet, somebody said that it costs more energy to build it then it will put out in a lifetime, haven't verified that claim though. wind has lot of problems.. i think a very very realistic solution would be to build a lot more nuclear reactors, but the green crowd is against it
clean (sic) coal is available (BTU) and they have teamed up with (RTK) to produce fuel. It may not be the cleanest, but will be the first u will see. why be critical of the rest? if you don't like it, don't invest in it. simple enough