At present their is some talk that this process is currently more expensive, but isn't attempting to shut down of the ecosystem in which we live going a bit far, too?

We need to spend the money needed to make this process work here in Australia and since some algae forms grow in salt water wouldn't that make it even more viable.

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Rather than take a fossil fuel and pollute and then require an offset say in the planting of an equivalent number of trees ( not that re-forrestating the earth wouldn't be anything, but a good thing. )

Instead, to use a biofuel, for example biodiesel, and using it ( + 1 amount of CO2 ), then mitigating that pollution by creating the biodiesel again whether from grain or algae ( -1 amount of CO2 ), thus creating a zero balance. You can then do this forever."

Graham Stoate

Using algae to produce biodiesel, the algae has to take up the same amount of co2 to produce the same amount of biodeisel it usually produces. Thus 1-1=0.

Oh, but you say what about the green waste. You burn it and run the emission after aclimatisation through the algae, until no co2 is left to return to the environment.

So you balance the emission everytime you produce an equivalent amount of biodeisel, thus zeroing the effect on the environment.

Think about it.

The LiveFuels alliance is the largest and most intensely focused group in the country commercializing technology that can make millions of barrels of biocrude oil per day. The initial focus of LiveFuels’ team will be algae-to-biocrude.

Algal oil is similar to soybean oil but can be grown on marginal lands unsuitable for food crops. Thriving on sunlight and CO2, algae can be grown in fresh or brackish water. This makes algae an ideal solution for farmers dealing with issues of agricultural run-off. Moreover, a shortage of vegetable oil has been predicted within 3 to 5 years in the United States, and algal oil could fill the gap for non-edible uses like biofuels.

By Chris Brummitt, Associated Press

TUMBANG KULING, Indonesia — Naingolan shunts the excavator into high gear and tears into a patch of smoldering forest on Borneo island, clearing the way for yet another palm oil plantation that Indonesia hopes will tap into a surge in global demand for biofuels.
Despite government claims pristine jungles are escaping the effects of the "green solution" to the energy crunch, the boom is threatening the survival of animals like the endangered orangutan and turning the country into a major global warming contributor, environmentalists say.

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