Reply #10: I do not want to get down on your case but I do want to point out something to you

[ThomWV]

This applies to the Algae as an oil source. I don't know anything about it but I do know this, you can not get anything out of a system unless you put something in.

Take a container 1 acre in size (or 100, or 1,000, I don't care), fill it up with water, and let the sun shine on it. In no time at all you'll get algae. It is almost as if the magical hand of god came from the sky and made it so. Actually it was just shit in the air that landed in the pond and found enough nutrients and energy (sun light) to take root, so to speak. The thing is from that moment on if you want to take oil out of the tank you have to put in the basic building blocks of oil. True that the algae can take the raw nutrients and make something from it that can then be rendered into a useful fuel but it still leaves that original source unnamed. In open waters that's not a problem if you're in the right place I'm sure, but then when you have algae in open water you're not talking about a harvestable proposition either.

It the same old perpetual motion machine problem put in agricultural terms.