Do-it-yourself oil and gas wells from algae while lowering atmospheric CO2.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2007/2007-02-09-09.asp "FY 2008 Budget Cut $100 Million for Coal to Liquid Fuel Project" "The proposed plant would convert 1.7 million tons of waste coal per year into 60 million gallons of non-petroleum based liquid fuel. Forty million gallons of the total is planned to be converted into zero-sulfur diesel fuel and 20 million gallons into naptha, a gasoline production feedstock. "We are doing far more than simply funding research," Governor Rendell said. "We have assembled a coalition of government and private businesses that will purchase nearly all the product generated by the plant for the next 10 years, guaranteeing that this new technology will have the opportunity to survive and compete in the energy marketplace." U.S. Senator Arlen Specter and Congressman Tim Holden, whose district encompasses the plant, have worked toward development of this project for nearly a decade. Governor Rendell promised to work with both of them, along with newly-elected U.S. Senator Robert Casey Jr. and the rest of Pennsylvanias congressional delegation, to coordinate a united, bipartisan effort to restore funding for the plant. In addition to creating liquid fuels to reduce imports of foreign oil, the proposed plant would - at no cost to the taxpayers - reclaim dangerous abandoned mine sites and remove waste coal piles that pollute waterways. Pennsylvania has over two billion tons of waste coal, and more than 180,000 acres of abandoned mine lands left over by the unregulated mining practices of the past. " ----- Original Message ----- From: Frederick Sparber To: vortex-l Sent: 2/14/2007 2:42:23 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize Thomas Malloy suggested "algae ponds in the southwest desert". I suggest floating filters-sieves as algae ponds on streams, rivers, and lakes, and Blanton's swimming pool, where the water passes through and the algae are contained in them for harvesting for dumping into abandoned coal mines for sequestering. Thomas Malloy's leaky canoe comes to mind as a demonstration. :-) Fred
