Unfortunately for all the youtube scholars here, the algae vs oil debate is a bit more complicated than what can be said in 500 characters. It is not a simple matter of "well? oil is cheaper" or "there's more oil in the ground than can be produced by the biosphere". That said, a lot of the algae companies I've worked with are just scamming for grants without any intention of actually commercializing something useful. For algae oil to work, you have to adjust your economic analysis and assumptions

lybia pumps oil and water the cost is exactly the same? 2 cents per gallon, can alge oil compete? never ever can it do that.

algae competing with oil in 100million years ..? yes

biofuel is not some great innovation or new technology.. we've always known? we can get fuel & locomotion from biological sources. we used oil from the ground because it was a massive reservoir exceeding anything we could get from the biosphere

worst comment ever?

competitor to oil = wishful thinking. besides, oil IS millions of years of accumulated algae? & other 'biofuel'. how can renewable fuel ever match what civilization is used to from splurging a 'lottery win'

alge competing with oil?? not in a million years

i hear you. though ash is made up of carbon compounds and other locked up minerals, then the carbon compounds in ash would need to be assimilated later and then put back into the air. if we burn oil, but we make some kind of building material from the other material left over after oil extraction rather than use as a feedstock, then we can lock the? carbon up. that to me might mean it is better than carbon neutral.

the growth will make oxygen while using co2, then the burning will release co2 back into the atmosphere. growth and burning it should equal out co2 and make it carbon neutral?

how is algae carbon neutral when it produces oxygen? the entire growth cycle.

MY ASS! the? only conservatives have is FOX, and why do you keep bringing up Jews? I like Jews they are the founder in the belief in our father, god. Mexicans are FUN! and yes I have the mind of a 2 year old

I have more sentience than you, thats all i'll? say

What a piece of shit you are. Children? have no rights. Why can't they vote? If they had rights, they'd vote and fight in wars. That proves children are worthless and subhuman and have no sentience.

And you conservatives all hate black people. Conservatives? control media. Show me the Socialist and Communist parties given equal airtime on tv. Show me when ads by Peta to oppose meat are given equal airtime to commercials for meat. You don't know any "hippies". Next, you will start hating and blaming Jews and Mexicans and teachers and farmers and bikers for all problems. Now, obviously, you've got the brain of a 2-year old but the body of a 99-year old.

OK shithead You know why i have never done a day of hard work in my life because i'm 12 FREAKIN YEARS OLD! and you know why i tied animal rights to hippies because that's what hippies do is smoke pot and protest for non senescent animals. And you know why i don't like the right for free speech, THE LIBERAL MEDIA they control america by making people think that saying the word black is racist, and that being a catholic? is bad and being gay is good. WTF! (you need to think about mars)

.. that you? are a worthless bag of prejudices.

You obviously hate free speech. And nothing wrong with being a hippy. No different than being a Jew or African American. And, did you know that humans are responsible for their actions, therefore, they can be whatever the fuck they want to be? But shitheads like you who never did a day of hard? work in your lives cannot grasp that. Shitheads equate being vegan for animal rights with hippies, even though they have nothing to do with each others, shows ...

Oh and by the way? did you know that there is another planet that is waiting for us? MARS! mars is the best place because it has 23 hours and 30 minuets in a day, it used (and probably still does have) to have water AND life but Obama bin laden thinks that humans will be just fine in 100 years well let me tell you something, That clock is ticking and if we don't find someplace fast the people on earth just end up killing each other because they can.

Wow, you bring child rapists in this (i wonder if you are one) Well lets just say all the meat eaters in world died leaving hippies to to the jobs that us meat eaters had to do they would be the ones whining saying "no more vending machines,? aw man I needed my 7-up after I just smoked a CRAP load of pot" there would be so much smoke in the air from people smoking pot that you guys would make planet earth WAY WORSE then it already is. And did you know that humans are OMNIVORES!

I already have. But religionists like TheDog9892 and you should have your balls cut off? without anesthesia. Meat-eaters should not be allowed to breed. I think putting them into prison for life is fun and funny.

And child rapists think having sex with children is fun, and meat-eaters are 1000X worse. Meat-eaters never contributed to society, because they? steal more than they have ever producers. You just want to force YOUR laws down everybody else's throats, but hypocrite anti-animal meat-eaters whine and complain if somebody does the same to them.

Meat = yummy not murder, you need to get a real job hippie, and do you want america to be? as bad as the worst dictatorships in the world

cant you just use solar panels to charge batteries to power? the lights? which requires NO energy to produce (except sunlight which is FREE)

If I were the head of BP, guess what I'd start trying to produce?? No more starting wars in other countries for their resources, no more transportation overseas, and you can bet people would love your company and support you.

I? already have, so I'm not a hypocrite. Pro-animal rights vegans and anti-overpopulation activists are never hypocritical. Only meat-eaters and breeders who dare make moral and legal judgements against others for far more trivial things than the crime of eating meat and overpopulating.