That would be awesome if the article were half as cool as the headline. The other downside is the article says:
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... National Laboratory (pdf) suggests that the U.S. could supply 1 percent of its annual gasoline needs by growing such seaweed for harvest.
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Thousands of miles of seawood farms in hopes of providing 1% of the gas we need. The other 99% would be, well, gas.
There's also this:
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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
The "downside" is "genetic engineering"?
Really?
You think that growing, harvesting and turning seaweed into any sort of volume of fuel is somehow going to be an efficient and cheap process?
The downside is giving millions in grants to fund projects to figure out how to make fuel that costs 100.00 a gallon. We're so much better off with ethanol from corn now... can't wait until federal law requires ethanol from seaweed, then subsidizes them so they can actually turn a profit.
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They did just spend billions of dollars of our money helping solar execs with failing companies leave work full pockets, and those were companies that they KNEW were going to fail no matter how much we subsidized them. Who wants to bet in his next term Obama spends billions of your money so that 1% of our gas can be $100 / gallon seaweed gas?
You know Obama and the fake green scam industry is PISSED that the 1% figure has already been leaked. I bet whoever included the line "could supply up to 1%" in the official report is already fired.