Jones wrote,
The best solution for using solar is probably algae (aquaculture). Billions
of years of evolution has taught those >little buggers a thing or two about
converting sunlight into storable energy efficiently.
Sure is Jones.
Consider a municipal wastewater treatment plant is a liquid fertilizer plant
on a massive scale. Biological reduction plants each have their own "
culture" adapted to the plant to improve efficency. Some of these cultures
are unbelievable in action, having been carefully nurtured. Major US cities
can have several huge plants, some massive, capable of treating a billion
gallons of wastewater per day. For some years we have watched this resource
"going down the toilet".
The problem is compounded because the existing treating processes still
allows compounds to enter the nation's streams including drugs, hormones
etc.
Combining treating process with aquaculture makes sense. The most efficent
process remains the smaller "lagoon" systems where ponds are used for
cascading the process downhill until the final pond effluent is ready to
return to nature. A type of bamboo can grow in this culture at the rate of
a foot or more per day. The root systems on these bamboo species are unreal
and near perfect filters.
Richard
