A few years ago I volunteered to be a judge in the local high school's science fair. One of the kids had harvested two types of algae from local ponds (which he called "green" and "brown" algae), extracted the oil from them, and burned it to determine which algae had more energy. Every now and then a kid comes along who renews my faith in the future.
On a related note, why are we always looking for the one single thing to replace oil? It's probably better to replace it with a bunch of things, not just one.
Jim
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, Bobby Yates Emory <liberty1@...> wrote:
>
> Tom,
>
> Thanks for the opening for a plug.
>
> There are a few thousand of us who are trying to develop ways to grow algae
> and extract oil.
>
> We are now making small progress toward an open source solution, but have
> not cost the taxpayers millions.
>
> Some of the algae are called cyanobacteria. I am not a microbiologist so I
> don't know whether they are bacteria or not.
>
> Everyone is invited to join us here:
>
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oil_from_algae/join>
>
>
> Bobby
>
>
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