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

[lfalen]

Ted

You are right in that biofuels cannot totally replace fossil fuels. They can however help, along with improving fuel efficiency. I don't know if battery powered cars will ever be  a success, hopefully they will ( not holding my breath). Given the ingenuity of inventive people, I think that eventually there will be a variety of other alternatives.
Roger 
-----Original message-----
From: "Ted Moffett" starbliss at gmail.com
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:22:23 -0800
To: lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com,  vision2020 vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Can Algae Fill Our Gas Tanks & Can Coal Energy KeepCO2 Stored?

> 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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