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Keep the lights on if you want to stay, Malcolm Turnbull : Comments
By Gary Johns, published 2/2/2017Once the old plants are retired or electricity demand increases sufficiently, Australia will need investment in coal-fired power.
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Even so there are no rules that say we have to wait a couple of million years to extract ready to use as is, oil from home grown, oil rich algae! And grown as effluent mop crops in broad scale farming, only requiring 1-2% of the water of traditional irrigation!
And if we ever run out of effluent, seawater will suffice!
Extracting the ready to use diesel or jet fuel is as simple as filtering out some of the still living product, sun drying it, then crushing it to remove the oil/ready to use diesel or jet fuel.
Algae absorb 2.5 times their bodyweight in Co2, which under optimised conditions, doubles every 24 hours as does the extractable oil content! With an industry expert reportedly claiming, that even with fuel excise added, 44 cent per litre retail is very doable?
But the good news doesn't stop there. The crushed material can go on to become feedstock in an food and arable land free, ethanol brewery. And the waste from that process can be speed on to/through commercial digesters to create copious methane for use in cooking, or scrubbed for use in ceramic fuel cells and what have you.
The waste from that process, carbon rich soil improver!
If it's so good? Why isn't it being done elsewhere?
Well it is! Just not by the smartest folk on the planet, Aussies, who'd rather fork over 60-70 billion per, of scarce export dollars, to buy fully imported fuel from a price gouging OPEC!
We've surely got to be the cleverest folk on the globe, with the most intelligent Leaders? Eh?
Alan B.