http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/ ... 3253.shtml
So, do mutant algae do they mean like something we would see in an old teenage mutant ninja turtles cartoon?
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It'll never be competetive to produce it that way. You'd need ridiculous amounts of arable land and fresh water. The equivalent of a gallon of petrol a day per acre? The cost of the land would be insane, and you can't do it hydroponically, because you'd need to put in more energy than you'd get, and if you did it via solar.... you might as well just use the solar to directly extract the hydrogen from water. There might be applications that I'm not seeing but mostly... seems like another dead end on the alternative power maze.
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40 gallons of petrol a day per acre.Black Wolf wrote: The equivalent of a gallon of petrol a day per acre?
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Why has nobody tried subspace yet?Black Wolf wrote:It'll never be competetive to produce it that way. You'd need ridiculous amounts of arable land and fresh water. The equivalent of a gallon of petrol a day per acre? The cost of the land would be insane, and you can't do it hydroponically, because you'd need to put in more energy than you'd get, and if you did it via solar.... you might as well just use the solar to directly extract the hydrogen from water. There might be applications that I'm not seeing but mostly... seems like another dead end on the alternative power maze.
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