I know John doesn't want this to turn into alternative energy, but dammit, this is too important for
us, perhaps more than any other product advocacy group, to avoid. The future for motorized vehicles isn't hydrogen, nor is it battery power. It's gasoline!
"JETZ, you're crazy," I hear you saying, "the supply of gasoline can't last forever, and we'll be giving all our money to Osama and those guys."
Aha, that's where you're wrong. We can make all the fuel we need to run the country, right here in America (or wherever else people on this forum live.) And, with this method, the fuel is carbon-neutral and requires no modification to existing vehicles to use. I'm talking about algae biofuels. Certain types of algae can be composed of as much as 60% oil, or more. This oil can be used as a pseudo-crude from which you can create gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, lighter fluid, motor oil, plastic, household cleaners, and all that petroleum-based stuff. And, you can go ahead and use existing refineries to do it. All that's required to grow the algae is water, sunlight, and CO2.
Yup, that's right, CO2. The more pollution you can feed the algae, the more fuel you can produce. This is because your fuel is going to be largely carbon-based (just as it is now) and the algae get that carbon from the atmosphere. If you think about it, the fuel we're drilling out of Saudi and Iraq and such was collected from the atmosphere by plants and things millions of years ago. We are importing carbon from the past! With an algae-based infrastructure, we'll be importing it from the present. An algae farm outside Los Angeles feeds off car exhaust, the fuel gets burned, becomes car exhaust, gets eaten up by algae, gets burned, etc. Pollution becomes a valuable resource for the creation of fuel. Power Plants and other CO2 producing facilities will be able to capitalize on their pollution by developing means to capture the CO2 and shipping it to fuel farms to boost production.
FUEL Preview - AlgaeThis is revolutionary in engine design, because it's the only option I've seen that doesn't require a revolution. You can keep your Hemi Roadrunner. You can keep your two-stroke. You can keep all of the things in your life that need fuel, but know that it's all carbon-neutral on an algae-centric fuel infrastructure.
And, perhaps best of all, it will put an end to all the Middle-East BS that's happening over oil. Areas like Alabama, with lots of sunlight and water available (the algae is already growing there in the wild) will become the new world capital of fuel. The big oil tankers are going to be filling their tanks in the Gulf of Mexico, and delivering their product in the Persian Gulf, rather than it being the other way about.
How long do you think it'll be before we start hearing about algae rights?
Edit:
John, you have to get rid of automatic censoring. Three times, I had to remove the word s-u-c-k because it got replace with "not so good." This led to phrases like, "The algae will be sucking carbon out of the atmosphere." Seriously, this sucks!
