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Subject Cyanobacterium can make oil at $30 a barrel - using the sun, water, and co2

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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1270473] More hype trying to sell crap read the fine print.

Joule claims, for instance, that its cyanobacterium can produce 15,000 gallons of diesel full per acre annually

Oh and what about the land Einsteins?
Ever consider that?15000 gallons per acre?You realize that is not much in the scheme of things right 15000 gallons?
An annually? lol
A petrol tanker with 1 trailer has 9000 gallons.
So lets stop growing food and grow diesel instead huh?
Not much use when we are dead from starvation right?
Oh and lets see the other emissions that get output from growing this?Like N02....which is worse than C02.
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I've driven across the US a few times and looked at plenty of land nobody was doing anything much with. Lots of it. And there is the odd bit of spare dirt in other countries. Which could always be an option if they carry on with the outsourcing drive taking place. Water is a different story in most places.

I don't know where you got the NO2 from? But I think diesel is a better fuel than gasoline looking at emissions. Either way the air-con seems to keep everything cool and fresh in the cab.

From US Dept. of Trasportation the figure for the "Average annual fuel consumed per vehicle (gallons)" for 2006 was 697 gallons (Includes personal passenger vehicles, buses, and trucks.) So that is enough fuel for 21 average vehciles per year from 1 acre.

source http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004727.html
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Original Message They could use the technology to produce the fuel needed to keep the middle east wars running full noise? Hopefully not.

From AP at yahoo [link to news.yahoo.com]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A Massachusetts biotechnology company says it can produce the fuel that runs Jaguars and jet engines using the same ingredients that make grass grow.

Joule Unlimited has invented a genetically-engineered organism that it says simply secretes diesel fuel or ethanol wherever it finds sunlight, water and carbon dioxide.

Joule claims, for instance, that its cyanobacterium can produce 15,000 gallons of diesel full per acre annually, over four times more than the most efficient algal process for making fuel. And they say they can do it at $30 a barrel.

A key for Joule is the cyanobacterium it chose, which is found everywhere and is less complex than algae, so it's easier to genetically manipulate, said biologist Dan Robertson, Joule's top scientist.

The organisms are engineered to take in sunlight and carbon dioxide, then produce and secrete ethanol or hydrocarbons — the basis of various fuels, such as diesel — as a byproduct of photosynthesis.

Joule's company's [link to www.jouleunlimited.com]

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