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1. The real ecological nightmare is industrial agriculture. Switching to organic-style crop rotation will cut energy use on farms by a third or more: no more petroleum-based herbicides, pesticides, or chemical fertilizers. Fertilizer needs can be served either by applying the byproducts left over from the alcohol manufacturing process directly to the soil, or by first running the byproducts through animals as feed.

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4. vertigro + craig venter’s latest discovery of synthesizing life = sustainable oil forever… that is, if the oil companies don’t decide to assassinate everyone or destroy his company. They are the bullies of this planet this rock that we all live on together. They will never be satisfied unless they’re in charge (making our lives miserable).

5. it’s like the matrix…..except we are the machines

6. Algae biofuel & bio diesel is the future. US will become first country to make biofuel and bio diesel to use on Cars, Trucks, Planes, other transportation, military war machines, & other. US will become richest like Saudi Arabia which hold a lot of oil.

7. reduce our reliance on oil?
   we are still using oil made by these protists

8. Thank you for this nice documentation. It is a good mix out of global pictures, interessting statistics and in addition some nice music. I also like algae a lot and the fantastic possibilities they offer! Some critical words: The presentation of other kind of biofuels is to negative and they the developed quit a lot in the last years.

9. his statistics are wrong. we do not emit that much co2 per year. Good message , though work on your science project a bit more.

10. face it. we’ve grown way too big as a society to be sustainable on any type of renewable fuel. all energy comes from the sun.. no matter which way you extract it, we’d still have to cover GYNORMOUS portions of our land to get where we need it and it would be horribly expensive.

11. We need to find ways from the fat cats taking advantage of this, charging us large amounts of money, and taxing us no good reason. We need to fight them. We need to find ways to stop them in their tracks.

12. @JonnyTommyGuns – what level of ignorance was required to negate my comment.
    a bike consumes the energy of a car headlight.
    bikes are clearly the answer.

13. People should ride bicycles more lol. Especially here in America. It’s “green”, you’ll save money, and lose weight or at least be healthier…

14. i love that the background music in the beginning is from Jurassic Park

15. Nope. no much different, but least we reduce more and more carbon release into the atmosphere, while try and learn to mitigate the green house effect, the ozone layers etc etc.

16. when the aglea is grown, it aborbs the same amouth on carbon dioxide as it realease when it burns, and is therefore, carbon neutral.

17. I Think we all know at this stage that this is the future of our renewable fuel source, Oil companies are now in on the act,which keeps them in buisness,Government fat cats are happy,Tax still applies,We all still go to the pump for fuel.

18. yes.

    First, the “o-zone” as you call it has nothing to do with hydrocarbon fuels.

    Second, the CO2 released by burning biomass was not previously sequestered underground as it was in the case of petroleum. The CO2 released originally had to be fixed from the atmosphere by the algae in the first place.

19. i’d like to compare:-
    [1] growing Biofuel to drive car, + food to feed human
    [2] growing Grass to power Horse,+ food to feed human
    [3] Human + Bicycle (30kcals/mile)

    i suspect the human+bike will wipe the floor with [1]&[2] for range given a certain area of land

20. The main difference between the oil we use now from fossil fuels and the oil derived from algae comes down the fact that algae uses up greenhouse gases in it photosynthesis to create the oil. True, burning the oil creates CO2 but that is negated by the CO2 used by the algae during it’s growth cycle. Additionally, algae can use the excess CO2 from current power plants to aid in biofuel production and even waste water can be used to grow the algae.

21. I have a question. We find the technology to super-speed-up the process so we can have the same oil was given to us by nature million of years ago. GREAT!!! What about pollution, green house effect, and O-zone is this same oil we get from algae any different?

22. 33k gallons of oil per acre per year vs 30 for corn. Is that confirmed anywhere?

23. Stick to the benefits of algae, and skip the Enviro Ninny propaganda.

24. To what extent?

25. yeah Biofuels from algae seems like a good idea.