[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY: Algae jet fuel

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Algae could become reliable jet fuel source


By ED TIMMS
The Dallas Morning News (TX)
June 7, 2009


Seawater algae - a cousin to pond scum - may someday become a 
significant source of fuel for military jets and airliners, and at the 
same time rejuvenate farmlands where tumbleweeds fill old irrigation 
ditches and abandoned cotton gins bake in the Texas sun.

Algae farmers conceivably could become the newest breed of Texas oilmen. 
For now, that's still a very big "if." Several scientific and technical 
obstacles must be overcome before the tiny plantlike organisms, which 
create unsightly rings on boat hulls and slime on fish tanks, can be 
turned into a viable fuel.

...

For the U.S. military, developing a reliable source of jet fuel, not 
subject to the volatility of the global crude oil market, is a national 
security issue. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which 
sponsors "revolutionary, high pay-off research" to maintain the U.S. 
military's technological edge, is one of several federal agencies 
providing funding to algae/bio-fuel research.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-algaefuel_07pro.ART.State.Bulldog.50aec9c.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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