[Vision2020] Can Algae Fill Our Gas Tanks & Can Coal Energy KeepCO2 Stored?

[Ted Moffett]

Roger et. al.

If I have my facts straight, I think the Spangle biofuel plant that just
went under before even getting going was the one that was once going to go
near the Port of
Wilma... But don't quote me on this!  The article in the Spokesman Review
said the main investor behind the Spangle biofuel plant had given up on a
biofuel plant in our area.

There is a big biofuel plant that is supposed to be built in Southern Idaho
by Iogen of Canada, using straw in a cellulosic biofuel process.  We shall
see if this happens.

Biofuels have promise, but I think there is a lot of naive optimism in the
hopes they can practically and economically, without serious impacts of
agriculture or the environment, sustainably replace a majority of the fossil
fuels that power our cars and trucks nation wide.

When I see this happen I will believe it.

Ted

On 1/3/07, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
>
> Ted
>
> Is this the plant that was originally to be built at the Port of Wilma. I
> hope  it will be built some were. There is a smal plant in the works at
> Genesee. He plans to make bildesial from usned vegetable oil. Brocke and
> Sons are also working on a product made from rape. There should be more of
> these as time goes on.
> Roger
> -----Original message-----
> From: "Ted Moffett" starbliss at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:08:27 -0800
> To: Vision2020 vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Can Algae Fill Our Gas Tanks & Can Coal Energy
> KeepCO2 Stored?
>
> > All-
> >
> > I was disappointed to learn that the biofuel plant planned for Spangle,
> > Washington has gone under:
> >
> > http://spokesmanreview.com/business/story.asp?ID=166758
> >
> > However, in a recent discussion of solutions to global warming and
> fossil
> > fuel depletion, someone mentioned biofuel from algae.  I first
> thought...
> > Yeah, sure!  But apparently this is not a joke:
> >
> > Read about it here:
> >
> > http://www.energybulletin.net/2364.html
> >
> > And while I'm at it, there are promising developments with CO2
> sequestration
> > from coal energy plants:
> >
> >
> http://www.discover.com/issues/dec-06/features/clean-coal-technology/?page=3
> >
> > Though global warming and fossil fuel depletion are massive daunting
> > problems that threaten the next generation, there are solutions, and the
>
> > quicker they are adopted, the better.
> >
> > Ted Moffett
> >
> >
>
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