Exxon Thinks It Can Create Biofuel from Algae at Massive Scale

Re:Exxon Thinks It Can Create Biofuel from Algae at Massive ... by BenjiWiebe on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @03:05PM (#16539343)

Well I guess we could just store up the fuel and not burn it. That would be carbon negative. Or ship it to Mars and burn it there as a start to terra forming. Too bad it's hard to get stuff to Mars.

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Re:Exxon Thinks It Can Create Biofuel from Algae at Massive ... by FrozenTuna on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @03:35PM (#16539612)

This is the answer. Not the mars thing, but creating fuel and not burning it. We got into this mess by taking stored up CO2 and releasing it for energy. You reverse this by taking energy and released CO2 and turning it into storable "fuel".

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Re:Exxon Thinks It Can Create Biofuel from Algae at Massive ... by castle-bravo on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @07:06PM (#16541155)

Would planting trees do the trick?

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Re:Exxon Thinks It Can Create Biofuel from Algae at Massive ... by FrozenTuna on Thursday March 15, 2018 @12:06PM (#16594038)

While it would certainly help, it would solve like 0.1% of the problem. Fun fact, plants actually consume oxygen at night. On a 24 hour cycle, they create more than they consume, so everyone just thinks all they do is create oxygen.

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Re:Exxon Thinks It Can Create Biofuel from Algae at Massive ... by zeth___ on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @05:27PM (#16540546)

And we already have all the empty oil wells to pump the fuel back in.

One might wonder why we took something out, only to put it back in, but ours is not to question why.

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