In reply to Jones Beene's message of Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:08:33 -0700 (PDT):
Hi,
[snip]
--- Nick Palmer wrote:
getting the CO2 from existing coal/oil/gas fired
plants would be FAR better...
I agree 100%. The situation is not either/or.
CO2 should definitely be removed from the exhaust of
Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
If I'm not mistaken (and I could well be), then the US actually consumes more
fossil fuel to generate electricity than it does for transportation . . .
Roughly the same for both: 26.6 quads of oil for transportation, and
for electric power 20.5 quads of coal and
--- Robin
If I'm not mistaken (and I could well be), then the
US actually consumes more fossil fuel to generate
electricity than it does for transportation,
Yes but much of that consumption for electricity is
provided by nuclear, hydro, wind, solar or in sites
which cannot easily adapt to
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:05:25 -0700 (PDT):
Hi,
[snip]
--- Robin
If I'm not mistaken (and I could well be), then the
US actually consumes more fossil fuel to generate
electricity than it does for transportation,
Yes but much of that consumption for
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is true that a breakthrough in batteries (what
happened to EEStor ??) would bring the situation into
better balance by shifting more demand to the grid.
Not a lot of real news on their wiki article:
--- Nick Palmer wrote:
getting the CO2 from existing coal/oil/gas fired
plants would be FAR better...
I agree 100%. The situation is not either/or.
CO2 should definitely be removed from the exhaust of
all existing fossil fired plants, and fed to algae-
there is no question about that.
Jones wrote:
Locating and owning optimum sites for algae farming could
replace exploration and drilling. While they wouldn't be the same
sort of refineries, oil company engineers could do what they do
best, designing and implementing the large scale chemical
processing plants that give us our
For the record the insight about the Oil Industry
getting into the Algoil act, and probably converting
it into their net big growth industry so to speak,
as if they invented the idea ... came from Michael not
me.
But I agree with it wholeheartedly and will soon
induct MJ into our bulging
Oops ... My Bad
... For the record the insight about the Oil Industry
getting into the Algoil act ... came from Michael
Foster
... but we have several openings in CA (Cynics
Anonymous) for anyone who resembles god ;-)
I will let one of the resemblers finish that thought...
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:02:37 -0700 (PDT):
Hi,
[snip]
Oops ... My Bad
... For the record the insight about the Oil Industry
getting into the Algoil act ... came from Michael
Foster
... but we have several openings in CA (Cynics
Anonymous) for anyone who
On Thursday 03 April 2008 21:33, Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:02:37 -0700 (PDT):
Hi,
[snip]
Oops ... My Bad
... For the record the insight about the Oil Industry
getting into the Algoil act ... came from Michael
Foster
... but
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