Re: Did O'bamma cut a deal??

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:57:24 -0800, travisgod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Nov 20, 8:20 pm, "Stanley Moore" <smoor...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Obama is quite aware of having to develop new energy sources.

O'bamma is a narcissistic fool who has surrounded himself with corrupt
crooks.

Solar power can reduce our energy needs a small percentage but every
bit helps.

Since oil is an organic substance, we could develop plants that could
be processed into fuel that would be every bit as good as oil, and
with great engineering even better since we could develop plants with
only the good stuff. I am willing to bet that if we were to give the
agricultural genuises at Texas A&M serious money, they would be
working their butts off day and night and in a matter a few years,
they would develop something quite awesome.

Let's cross our fingers and wish even more strenuously, then.

Imagine if we could grow our fuel. How many jobs that would produce.

Idiot...imagine the upward price pressures on foodstuffs.  Imagine the
habitat land destroyed so we could plant monocultural crops.

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One advantage of algae is it can be grown in tanks on non agricultural land,
waste areas unsuited for other uses. Heaven knows there's plenty of space
for that. Take care
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Stanley L. Moore
"The belief in a supernatural
source of evil is not necessary;
men alone are quite capable
of every wickedness."
Joseph Conrad

Algae huh?

This is jack and the beanstalk algae, right?

There's no algae currently in existence, no system of production,
collection, refinement, that can meet our energy needs. We are many
more years away from this than anyone is willing to admit.

The technology exists, the algae strains exist (several of them, in
fact). The first problem is that there are no major algae farms. And
it would take a crap load of them. Yes, we could cover Nevada with them
and probably meet our gasoline needs from them, but algae farms aren't
free. They cost money to build and run. The second problem is, even
with economies of scale, algae-oil still has a net energy gain which
lower than that of petroleum. IOW, (for those who don't know - yes, I
know you understand Trav) the energy it takes to pump and process
petroleum into fuel is far far less than the energy it takes to build,
grow, process, and refine algae-oil into fuel. Until some point in the
future when the energy-cost of petroleum (or some other economic factor)
pushes the real costs of petroleum equal to or greater than that of
algae-oil, there just isn't really any big reason to use it (outside of
the idea of not mortgaging the next 300 years of our productivity to the
Saudies in debt).


Dreamy-eyed fantasies aren't the answer right now. We need a massive
change in lifestyle where the meritless like bushlyed are made to ride
buses instead of being given the freedom to operate a gas guzzling
luxury car. All for the benefit of the collective, of course.

What with big cities talking about seriously curtailing "Public Transit"
I wonder exactly how "efficient" public transit really is. If it was
that cheap, why are they having to trim it back so much? Surely that
$0.75 people pay to ride is enough?

Peace favor your sword (IH),
Kirk
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