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lapfog_1

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

Fri Nov 1, 2019, 08:19 PM

Nov 2019

so there is actually no net increase in CO2 from the process.

Like almost all plants on earth, algae fixes CO2 from the atmosphere and releases it when the plant decays (or we extract the oil and burn it)

One thing we COULD explore is NOT burn the algae... i.e. grow vast quantities and simply dry it out and bury it (fixing the trapped CO2 in the earth... and making fossil fuel for somebody millions of years in the future - lol)

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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