[Sustain] Another Nail In The Algae Fuel Coffin .. and .. Airplanes

[Eric Brooks]

Also keep in mind that, whatever carbon waste source we would use to 
feed algae whether it is CO2 from dirty fossil fuel plants, or Methane 
from animal agriculture, what we would essentially be doing is only 
temporarily absorbing carbon that is being unnecessarily produced in the 
first place, (when we should instead be using true renewables, and 
eating much more vegetarian oriented diets in order to -not- generate 
that excess carbon). We would only  be temporarily taking unnecessary 
waste carbon, turning it into algae, processing the algae into fuel, and 
then releasing that very same excess carbon into the atmosphere anyway, 
when we burn the algae fuel. This is absurd. All it does is delay the 
release of the pollution by storing it a bunch of algae for a while...

Even in the case of methane from waste dumps, we need to reduce the 
capacity of the dump to produce so much methane in the first place, and 
whatever methane is left after this reduction, figure out the best way 
to split it into hydrogen in order to keep -that- carbon source -out- of 
the atmosphere, instead of just temporarily processing it through the 
tiny bodies of algae, only to later release it again as biofuel carbon 
combustion waste.

Combustion fuel, no matter its source, must go. Algae is not an answer.

And to speak to an earlier point, we need to stop flying around in 
airplanes and develop very high speed ground trains instead. There is no 
reason renewable electric powered mag lev trains can't get us around 
just as quickly, or even more quickly, than airplanes.

cheers

Eric