Recently an article on yahoo (**URL at the bottom of the post**) made the job of both getting off foreign oil, and cleaning up our current addiction very optimistic. Apparently algae eats CO2, the reference "coast to coast on slime" refers to a project aimed at just that; "California company Sapphire Energy has already fueled a cross-country road trip with algae-tinged gasoline."
The idea of algae-fuel is very promising. Algae grows in a lot of places without much effort, making it perfect for the job. Although some people are cynical, as they often are, there seems to be a lot of buzz lately regarding the topic.
Algae is not only good at eating off gas from fossil fuel, but it may be able to be used as a source of fuel as well. Lipids are stored in algae, and many scientists are working on methods of extraction. Promising headway has been made promting patents and investments.
ExxonMobil recently said it would be spending 600 million dollars on research, and in July Dow Chemical announced a new partnership aimed at building a demonstration plant, and expects to launch commercial production by 2011.
Good news for us!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091022/sc_afp/lifestyleusclimateenergyalgae_20091022065724
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