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Originally Posted by Kaio  Unfortunately the numbers sound massively fishy. But even if the numbers pan out to be half as good it's still twice as good as corn.
edit: Numbers revised... Also I'm not sure how capturing sunlight in 1/10 of new mexico can power most of the u.s. no matter the process. |
Algae does have potential and pretty much any way you slice it should be capable of vastly out performing other sources including cellulosic sources...in theory.
In practice no one has been able to actually make usable oil from an algae farm in anything approaching feasibility, and by nowhere approaching feasibility I mean single digit liters and often far less than that.
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42 coal or natural gas plants using carbon-capture technology to store CO2 emissions underground.
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My impression is the carbon sequestration doesn't yet scale well, and isn't expected to for another couple of decades, but I'm not positive.
Someone can read through this and tell me if I'm wrong.