Green MONEY

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/02-the-second-coming-of-biofuels
discusses how transnationals, like Honeywell, are investing in algae
that produce diesel, and do it growing in saltwater. On land that is now
useless desert, but with plenty of sunlight for the algae.

The above report suggest that while you can get 100 gallons of biofuel
off an acre of corn, sorghum, soybeans, canola, sunflower, or whatever,
you get 3500 gallons of biodiesel off an acre of algae.

This also is a fundamental problem of the power elites, who only want
investment in concentrated sources of energy where they get to control
the output and skim the profits. So, the media, which they control,
looks only at nukes, coal, and oil, and dismisses the innovation that
would lead to the dispersal of energy supplies.

It reminds me of Thucydides' report of a Corinthian aristocrat speaking
to the Spartan aristocracy about the need to attack the world's greatest
democratic empire because of the Athenian rate of innovation that he
thot might make the weapons the Spartans knew how to use obsolete.

Which was indeed the case. And we see how the power elite that came in
with Bush has failed to rely on American innovation to fight the wars on
drugs and terrorism, basically because they dont want to win these wars,
but to milk them.

But we are where we are. And no matter who wins the election, most of
the stuggles we face will not change for the better soon, and there is
the constant worry that the damage done by the Neocon exploitive mis-
management of the system will lead to financial panic and the
dissolution of the Untied States of Denial.

There is, however, still time to look for a deal on a small diesel
powered car, maybe build a pool in the back to grow the algae, and
figure out how to process it yourself. There's still time as well to
organize entrepreneurially with friends to setup a larger scale
operation, and do so while the Oil Luddites are in denial about the
feasibility of alternative energy. You can not only put your money where
your mouth is, you get to laff all the way to the bank later.

If those who want to preserve the environment are as scientifically
minded as they claim to be, they should be able to figure out how to
produce biofuels for their own use and profit from the local market.
That will have vastly more impact on improving both the viability of the
economy and the sustainability of the environment than rants on the net.

Quit trying to tell people what to do, and show them what you've done.
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