One day I think we will be seeing these bio-reactors standing next to our water treatment plants, taking waste and carbon dioxide and making bio-fuel, fertilizer and oxygen.
It will be strange seeing bright green gas though.
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The more they have to chemical-engineer new ways for fuel consumption scares me. The more toxic-turned-less toxic chemicals we use, and like 3B said, right next to a water source.. I'm thinking we may start making living dead... or Un-dead Americans is the PC term. Like Dennis Hopper said in "Land of the Dead".. "Zombies really creep me out man"
The more they have to chemical-engineer new ways for fuel consumption scares me. The more toxic-turned-less toxic chemicals we use, and like 3B said, right next to a water source.. I'm thinking we may start making living dead... or Un-dead Americans is the PC term. Like Dennis Hopper said in "Land of the Dead".. "Zombies really creep me out man"
Not a "water source" Vortex, a "Water TREATMENT Source" (sewage, savvy).
The only thing you have is plastic containers where the sewage and water flows in, the algae eats some of the sewage (a lot of it, actually), takes in CO2, and puts out Oxygen and yields a crop roughly 3000 times more efficient than corn for making bio-fuel...
AFTER they figure all the ins and outs involved, which they have not done yet.
The strains of algae, by the way, are already out there - they aren't some sort of super-plant created by science. They are just seeking out the really gluttonous little guys that will pig out and yield the most oil.
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First with the sugar beets, now with the pond scum.
You never give up, PC. I like that.
Problem with the oil algae is that I will bet you have the wrong kind - yours will probably EAT fuel instead of make it!
But I can imagine the pics:
"First Memorial Algore Algae Victory Garden".
Keep those jehad cats of yours away from it, though. No telling what eating oil algae would do to them.
In the words of Jason Nesmith, "never give up, never surrender"
I need a way to manufacture my own propane.
I won't have to worry about the bunnies until next spring, when I bring out the rotating blades again.
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...and is spread by automobiles. When it grows over the highway, the tires on autos pick up the seeds and distributes them all over the south........will it grow up north?
...and is spread by automobiles. When it grows over the highway, the tires on autos pick up the seeds and distributes them all over the south........will it grow up north?
I don't think so, I looked it up and supposidly it can't survive temps under 5 degrees. on the bright side, it says the leaves can be used in salads and are high in vitamin A and C.
So get out the salad dressing and have a feast!
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In the words of Jason Nesmith, "never give up, never surrender"
I need a way to manufacture my own propane.
I won't have to worry about the bunnies until next spring, when I bring out the rotating blades again.
I want one of those spheres they found laying around loose surrounded by "minors".
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"You can never be free until you let yourself go."
I don't think so, I looked it up and supposidly it can't survive temps under 5 degrees. on the bright side, it says the leaves can be used in salads and are high in vitamin A and C.
So get out the salad dressing and have a feast!
Dont tell that to Bear Grylls, next thing you know there will be a Man vs Wild episosde somewhere in GA where he lives off kudzu and saw briars for a week!
I don't think so, I looked it up and supposidly it can't survive temps under 5 degrees. on the bright side, it says the leaves can be used in salads and are high in vitamin A and C.
So get out the salad dressing and have a feast!
Somewhere around here there is an annual Kudzu Festival. They figure if they can't get rid of it, might as well find ways to use it. I've never been, but when they covered one year's festival on the evening news a couple of years back. one recipe that looked interesting to me (being that I am a fan of dolmathakia) was a variant of stuffed grape leaves that used kudzu leaves, instead. Maybe I'll go to the festival sometime. I've been to the Ramp Festival (and ate ramps and eggs) more than once, so why not?
Trip, as an aside, have you ever read 'Where the Summer Ends' (at least I think that is the title) by Karl Edward Wagner? For me, Wagner ranks right up there with Manly Wade Wellman for creepy but well-written horror stories set in the Southeast/Appalachia (although I must admit that I find Wellman's best to be superior to Wagner's work.) That particular piece involves dimunitive, 'gremlin' like beasties, of Japanese origin, that live in and have a symbiotic relationship with kudzu, were imported along with it and at least partially explain why the plants do so well. The main character of the story starts noticing things missing (including his dog, if I recall correctly) and all throughout the kudzu (before the reader knows about the existance of the little monsters) creeps ominously closer and closer to the house. Kind of like the algae you mentioned, most everything in its path was devoured. I thought of that because I felt it provided a little bit of syncronicity between the two subjects (hungry algae and kudzu) mentioned in the last few posts.
Gasoline from Algae 
