algae as energy source ?

Posted By: Mwalimu @ 02/21/2009 3:39:18 PMPerhaps because of a shortage of space, Guteri failed to mention one way to make China greener: algae. This possibility was mentioned in John Tickell's documenary Fuel, was well as an article in National Geographic magazine last year. Exhausts from coal-fired plants could be recycled to produce algae. In addition, algae could be produced from sewage treatment plants. Another possibility, mentioned in an interview between Fahreed Zakaria and Greg Vetter in a July edition of Newsweek, is getting fuel from bacteria. The latest research I got from Internet indicates that at present algae is an expensive fuel, so we need to conduct research on how to reduce the costs, but developing green fuels from algae and bacteria are one way to reduce carbon emissions.
According the an article I read today on Earthlink.news by Charles J Hanley, we are running out of time. Hanley quotes Lord Nicholas Stern, a global warming expert, as saying that we must reach zero carbon emissions in both power and road vehicles by 2050, or we face catastrophic conditions.
The problem we face in this country is the party of NO - namely the GOP who get a lot of their funding from the oil industry. Too many politicians in this country, as well as too many journalists in the media - including CNN, Fox NEws, and Newsweek believe either that global climate change is a leftist hoax and/or that it is not a serious problem. This premise is phenomenally ignorant and irrespoonsible, and when John McCain screams about 'generation theft" he has no idea of how his and his wife's carbon-consuming life style is destroying the planet.
Economically, green technology is a hot industry - we need to start investing in this immediately; As far as the zombie banks that are currently threatening to engulf the worlds' GDP - let's let the billionaires finance their own bailout by by taxing all the billions of dollars they stole from everyone else. Even if billionaires had to pay a 90% income tax, they 'd have far more money than any of the rest of us could ever dream of owning.
Saving the planet is far more important than coddling the rich.