Algae - CO2 to energy
Posted by: saint
19th Mar 2011 02:44pm
Lets add value to CO2 - let algae consume it and grow to provide both oil and a highly nutritous meal
let. complete mother natures natural carbon cycle
let. complete mother natures natural carbon cycle
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s
I agree to some extent.
But don't let it get out of control!
Only give it a timeframe to do this and then use the byproducts it creates as this is true sustainability and recycling.
Ambrose
Better still, let's control how the algae lives so it produces nitrogen for a renewable fuel source! Australia could make a fortune from this because we have vast areas of vacant land that get a lot of sun for the algae to live.
Much cleaner than producing electricity for mass power - which still requires the burning of fossil fuels.
saint
Let mother nature complete the carbon cycle and at the same time adding value and sustainability
simla
Hi saint, yes we could feed the worlds starving people by just growing algae! There was a guy, an American, can't think of his name, who used to dry it and make pills out of it, and give a suitcase full of them to anyone going to a drought ravaged part of Africa to give to the starving Africans. What a good idea! I wonder if anyone is doing that these days?
Bellxchat
I'm sure there's a lot of alternatives that really haven't been given enough consideration. Think where we'd be now if the internal combusion engine had been developed with electricity instead of petrol all those years ago!