Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[anna Lorrai <cactusandquail@yahoo.com>]

I don't think that algae is a silver bullet BUT the prices of gas are way up and another video from UC said that some of the higher production estimates of the cost of biofuel from algae would be $60 a barrel.  There are other benefits such as using waste water and high nitrogen water from agriculture to grow algae.

 

Bad press creates mindset.  You say " Get Big Or Get Out"  What's that? It's mindset created by money, Mansanto, Oil.   The point is if we are going to go to sustainable systems our mindset and the mindset of the average person has to be focused on , " Small is beautiful"  and " Sustainable is beautiful" 

 

I think the reason biofuel and fertilizer from algae has not done anything in the market is because it's not part of the Big Oil economy.  Slowly some big oil companies are getting on board and getting in because Green is becoming popular.  There has also been a lot more research currently. Algae's that are better oil producers are being developed  as well as systems for making biofuels  I'm keeping my mind open with hope.  Anna

Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:

> I looked at the video. Yet the principles of algae producing fuel have been known for decades, and it's been researched long before recent "bad press" about biofuels. It just hasn't turned out to be practical financially. If it had the potential to be the silver bullet, investors would be trampling each other to get into it. Cyanobacteria may someday prove more practical, but not yet. Always, the ultimate answer is powering down this society. 
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> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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> On 5/30/2008 at 12:37 PM anna Lorrai
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> >There is a lot of bad press about biofuels due to the corn prices. This
> >recent release from the University of Texas shows how algae is such a
> >wonderful alternative. They can produce fertilzer and fuel for us on
> >waste lands and waste. Because of the bad publicity over the fuel or food
> >issue these start up businesses for algae production are having a rough
> >time getting funding, that's why I'm trying to get the word out about this
> >wonderful oil producing cyanobacteria (?) 
> > http://www.utexas.edu/oncampus/2008/05/16/fueling-the-future/
> > 
> > great video, hope I got the url right. Anna
> >
> > 
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