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Global Economy Bursting?

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Couch Potato said:
Except that is not the process. The carbon dioxide along with sunlight is fed to the organism which then secretes diesel fuel. Much like they do with diesel fuel from petroleum to mark fuel for certain uses, a die could be added to the fuel secreted by the organisms. It could be the supplier of waste carbon dioxide gets credit for not emitting the gas supplied for the process. Many possibilities exist.

The bottom line is the technology is unlike any other with the potential to greatly reduce the use of petroleum in a very short timeframe yet it requires no adaptation by end users.
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I believe the environmentalist declare alcohol made from corn as a green fuel. Why? Because the corn gots its carbon from the atmosphere (not counting the fossil fuel used to grow it, harvest it or convert it to alcohol). So any plant life that gets its carbon from the ocean or from the atmosphere is producing a green fuel when it is converted to a hydrocarbon and burnt (combusted).

Never mind that petroleum and natural gas came from algae on the bottom of the Gulf. It's dirty carbon made by nature without man's assit.

When hydrocarbons are combusted, they produce carbon dioxide and water as their main products, regardless of how they are made or where they came from.

It is really stupid to claim one as a green source and the other a dirty source, since they can use the same carbon atom interchangeably. Both end up as emissions in the atmosphere. One causes global warming, the other doesn't. :rof:
 
Randolph Kinney said:
California’s Green Jihad

http://blogs.forbes.com/joelkotkin/2011/06/07/californias-green-jihad/
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It is interesting to watch human action morph and coalesce into different forms and images. For example, the linked article states what some of us have known all along, the radical left is a religion not an ideology. Yesterday Ann Coulter released her new book “Demonic” in which she describes the left as people possessed by a legion of demons. She gives a Bible quote in which Jesus cast out demons from a possessed person and the demon refers to itself as “a legion.” In two consecutive days from different quarters two totally separate and distant people have drawn the same conclusion and presented it for public opinion. In both instances the legion possessed left is irrational and self destructive held together with fanatical religious fervor hell bent on self destruction and anyone that happens to get in its way.
 
Silicon Valley (Bay area, northern California) has gotten behind the green movement and green jobs created by green technology. They see it as the salvation of the high tech industry in California.

The irony is the solar manufacturing that was done in California has been run out of business by China.

SunPower Corporation is located in San Jose, CA designs and manufactures high-efficiency silicon solar cells, roof tiles and solar panels based on a silicon all-back-contact solar cell invented at Stanford University.

SunPower Chief Executive Tom Werner said the industry was seeing intense competition for sales that could drive prices for solar modules down 20 percent this year.

"You are seeing points where it's not economically viable for some (of our) competition to produce product," he told Reuters.

China-based LDK, which mostly makes solar wafers but has been expanding into the module market, said module shipments would increase significantly in the coming months.

The irony for SunPower:

Groups sue to stop SunPower plant in California

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/02/sunpower-idUSN0227740820110602

Groups seek to stop 250 MW California Valley Solar Ranch

SunPower in April received a conditional commitment for a $1.187 billion loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy to fund construction of the plant.
 
Another example of the irrationality. It is like trying to catch a ghost. If you get him cornered it disappears and reappears in another area of the room. It wants Green and you give them green but they don't like that shade of green. What shade of green do they want? They will know it when they see it. This demon is exactly what it appears to be-a demon. Totally irrational and bent on self destruction as well as everyone else.
 
The US owes China 1 trillion dollars. When you owe someone that much money you don't have to worry about their concerns because you have them by the short and curlies. The Republicans are just jerking their chain.
 
The Gas Is Greener

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/opinion/08bryce.html

While energy sources like sunlight and wind are free and naturally replenished, converting them into large quantities of electricity requires vast amounts of natural resources — most notably, land. Even a cursory look at these costs exposes the deep contradictions in the renewable energy movement.

Not all environmentalists ignore renewable energy’s land requirements. The Nature Conservancy has coined the term “energy sprawl” to describe it.
 
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