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3. Exactly. Algae-generated oil is still oil that when burned will...

Reply to Botany (Reply #1)

Fri Nov 1, 2019, 08:17 PM

Nov 2019

foul the atmosphere further.

And big oil is late to the party on this. The idea of harvesting algae for oil is at least 10 years old. It's a non-starter. I do like their intention however if it's to get away from drilling.

Good intention but they should spend their resources developing green energy sources like solar, wind, geothermal and wave-generated energy.

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will we ever see algae oil/gas? [View all] mopinko Nov 2019 OP

It might make exxon billions but it is all bull shit Botany Nov 2019 #1

Exactly. Algae-generated oil is still oil that when burned will... brush Nov 2019 #3

no... I mean yes but the carbon used in the process is coming FROM the atmosphere lapfog_1 Nov 2019 #4

maybe i am conflating 2 totally different things, but mopinko Nov 2019 #8

methane is not CO2 lapfog_1 Nov 2019 #9

no, i was talking about cows. mopinko Nov 2019 #10

oh, correct... algae oil "waste" product (dried algae without the oil) lapfog_1 Nov 2019 #13

so having studied doing an algae oil farm 10 years ago lapfog_1 Nov 2019 #2

2- seems to me mopinko Nov 2019 #7

Time to correct some other things lapfog_1 Nov 2019 #12

no market for it when internal combustion engines go extinct nt msongs Nov 2019 #5

Vaporware at this point - it would be nice if we had 20 or 30 years to work through basic science . hatrack Nov 2019 #6

Not at today's oil prices customerserviceguy Nov 2019 #11