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Algae is once againg makings its way into the headlines with a Japanese airline looking to be the fourth airline to use biofuels in a test flight tomorrow. However, the most interesting tidbit in this article is the claim that an algae farm the size of Belgium would produce enough fuel to power all commercial airlines worldwide.
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P.S. For those of you who aren’t near a map, Belgium is quite a small country.
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Ha Ha.

GORE HEARING ON WARMING MAY BE PUT ON ICE
Mon Jan 26 2009 17:59:26 ET

 

Al Gore is scheduled before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday morning to once again testify on the ‘urgent need’ to combat global warming.

 

But Mother Nature seems ready to freeze the proceedings.

 

A ‘Winter Storm Watch’ has been posted for the nation’s capitol and there is a potential for significant snow… sleet… or ice accumulations.

 

“I can’t imagine the Democrats would want to showcase Mr. Gore and his new findings on global warming as a winter storm rages outside,” a Republican lawmaker emailed the DRUDGE REPORT. “And if the ice really piles up, it will not be safe to travel.”

 

A spokesman for Sen. John Kerry, who chairs the committee, was not immediately available to comment on contingency plans.

 

Global warming advocates have suggested this year’s wild winter spells are proof of climate change.

Via Drudge

No people, that is not a quote from me, but it just so happens to be a quote from this “I pledge” video:

Yea, empty promises, all of them. First off, how in the world is Demi Moore going to free 1 million from slavery in the next five years? This freeing of 1 million slaves is going to even be more complicated if she won’t advocate military intervention. But then again, with The One in charge of the military, is it really that wrong to advocate force? I mean, he is pratically a god and would never decide to do anything wrong.

Then there is the idiot wearing pink (I don’t even know who he is) who pledges to “be of service to Barack Obama.” I’m sure that guy will not be found the moment Obama calls for “sacrifices” and ask for volunteers for military ’service’. I mean, Biden is saying that Afghanistan is in trouble so I’m sure The One will be in need of some able bodies pretty soon.

Wait, what am I saying, I’m sure Biden’s statements are going to be used as future justification to cut and run on the Afghanistan people. Thank goodness we at least won in Iraq.

OriginOil, an algae biofuel company, is sending its President and CEO to a Biofuel Market Conference in Brussels, Belgium. To get the whole scoop, take a look at this press release:

ORIGINOIL CEO TO ADDRESS LEADERS OF GLOBAL BIOFUELS INDUSTRY AT WORLD BIOFUELS MARKETS 2009

 

Riggs Eckelberry to Present during Algae Fuels Forum on March 16, 2009

 

Los Angeles, CA January 22, 2009 – OriginOil, Inc. (OTCBB: OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, has announced that the company’s President and CEO, Riggs Eckelberry, will address the top leaders of the global biofuels industry at the prestigious World Biofuels Markets conference in Brussels, Belgium, on March 16, 2009.

 

As the largest biofuels event in Europe, the World Biofuels Markets attracts over 1,500 attendees and more than 1,000 exhibitors from around the world. To continue in its tradition of celebrated guest panelists that have included Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and Jose Maria Figueres Olsen, Former President of Costa Rica, this year’s keynote address will be delivered by given by Sir Bob Geldof, humanitarian, businessman and musician, with a special presentation by Jeb Bush, Former Governor for the state of Florida.

 

Mr. Eckelberry will be presenting at 11:45 during the Algae Fuels Forum, a full-day seminar that will examine the viability of algae as a sustainable, low-cost feedstock for the biofuels industry. Other panelists scheduled to appear with Mr. Eckelberry come from such widely-esteemed companies as BP Biofuels, Verenium Corporation, Boeing Commercial Airplanes and eBIO, the European Bioethanol Fuel Association.

 

“We are pleased to have been asked to present at the World Biofuels Markets among such highly-respected industry professionals,” said Riggs Eckelberry. “Algae is rapidly emerging as a viable competitor in the renewable energy sector, and OriginOil is at the forefront of developing technologies to enable the production of commercially viable algae oil. I am looking forward to joining my colleagues in a discussion about how we can best work together to help reduce our country’s dependence on foreign petroleum and share with them OriginOil’s innovative algae-to-oil technology.”

 

The World Biofuels Markets 2009 Congress will take place from March 16-18 at the Brussels Expo Centre in Belgium. For more information or to attend the seminar, visit http://www.worldbiofuelsmarkets.com/.

 

About OriginOil, Inc.:

 

OriginOil, Inc. is developing a breakthrough technology that will transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum. Much of the world’s oil and gas is made up of ancient algae deposits. Today, our technology will produce “new oil” from algae, through a cost-effective, high-speed manufacturing process. This endless supply of new oil can be used for many products, such as diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, plastics and solvents, without the global warming effects of petroleum. Other oil-producing feedstock, such as corn and sugarcane, often destroy vital farmlands and rainforests, disrupt global food supplies and create new environmental problems. Our unique technology, based on algae, is targeted at fundamentally changing our source of oil without disrupting the environment or food supplies. To learn more about OriginOil™, please visit our website at www.originoil.com.

As I have said many, many times, algae has great potential to become a major player in the alternative fuel market and even the fuel market as a whole.

Oh wait, you thought I was serious? Nope. It seems that today, the DOW experienced the worst inauguration day drop in its history.

Wow, gun sales are actually way up since Obama was elected. I wonder who could have ever predicted that.

Huffington Post seems to be having some difficulties reconciling the mounting evidence against the theory of man made global warming and their oft repeated ‘facts’. As we have seen recently, some at Huffington have accepted the truth while other are demanding the thought police to take action in order to stop the spread of the heretical “natural climate cycle” theories.

It looks like we are coming closer and closer to having biofuels from algae with algae biofuel company Algenol stating that it was a year away from selling their fuel.

Nobody is more bullish on algae than Algenol’s Woods, who founded the company in 2006 but has been pondering algae’s potential since he came up with the basic idea behind Algenol’s technology as an undergraduate in 1984. Most algae firms harvest the organisms and squeeze them to extract oil that’s then processed into a fuel, but Algenol’s strains essentially sweat oil in a gaseous form that can be condensed into a liquid. Woods says his system can yield 6,000 gallons (22,700 L) of ethanol per acre annually, compared to 370 gallons (1,400 L) per acre for corn ethanol. At his Florida test facility, Woods kneels and taps on one of his holding tanks. Clear droplets cling to the inside of the lid. “This is it,” he says. “That’s what we’ve learned here — this really does work.”

 

Woods will soon get a chance to test his idea on a massive scale. With a group of partners that includes a scion of the Corona beer family, Algenol is poised to break ground on a commercial-scale facility in the Sonoran desert of northern Mexico. The plant’s seaside location enables the company to use seawater to grow the algae, and a nearby coal plant could provide concentrated CO2 to turbocharge production. But not everyone is convinced that either algae or Algenol is ready for prime time. “I would say the hype is well ahead of the reality,” says John Benemann, an expert in algae biofuels, who notes that no commercial method yet exists to capture CO2 from power plants and deliver it to algae facilities.

Why does this not even surprise me? I mean, when you want to increase the government’s control of our energy use, which will in turn affect every other aspect of our country, you can’t help but have socialist tendencies.
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We really are in for a tough four years.
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Today, Continental Airlines successfully conducted a test flight where one engine ran on a 50-50 mixture of regular fuel and a biofuel mixture of algae and jatropha. The other engine just ran strictly on regular jet fuel.

Anyways, beside from the fact that the plane actually took off and landed successfully, something else was discovered: the engine running on the 50-50 mixture actually had a higher energy output than the regular fuel one. Take a look:

During the flight, two pilots put the aircraft through a series of normal and non-normal flight maneuvers, such as shutting down and restarting the engine in mid-flight and power accelerations and decelerations. An engineer was on board to record flight data.

 

The flight operated with a biofuel blend of 50 percent biologically derived fuel and 50 percent traditional jet fuel in one of the engines. The other engine ran on traditional jet fuel, allowing Continental to compare how the fuels perform.

 

‘Slight Difference’

 

“They did notice a slight difference in some of the readings indicating that the energy output of the biofuel was higher than the regular fuel,” Messing said. “ They were essentially getting more thrust from the biofuel-powered engine using a lower amount of fuel than from the regular engine.”

Yes, you read that correctly, the biofuel mixture actually produced more energy than regular fuel. If this results ends up being the standard for algae based biofuels, algae could end up being a replacement for regular oil strictly on the grounds of efficiency.

Now all they have to do is make sure that these fuels can be produced at commercially competitive prices.