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With oil prices rising to new highs seemingly every week, the argument over renewables, and the favorite tagline of the moment - “Energy Independence”, the answer is within reach.  For golfers, fishermen, and pool owners, it is something you hate - algae.

Many species of algae, especially the blue-green variety, consists of over 50% oil. Of all plants that can be grown for oil, algae produces more gallons per acre than the rest combined! And this is without genetically modifying algae to produce the optimal amount.

Ethanol is proving to be a large waste of money and disappointingly raises food prices which hurts the poor people of the world even harder.  It has proven to be an inefficient source for biodiesel based on power, conversation energy, and yield while not answering the energy crisis.  Brazil has done a magnificent job with sugar cane for ethanol and turning it into a strong [...] Continue Reading…

Each day you see television commercials about feeding children in Africa and other underdeveloped regions for ‘less than a dollar a day’ or read an article about how many people live below the international poverty line which is also $1 a day. Most of us do care and feel bad about this however we rarely contribute and donate any money let alone take other action to remedy the situation. Interestingly, if you take the money spent on pet ownership just in America annually, you would be able to feed hundreds of millions of people worldwide each year.

We talk about ‘the Millennium Goals’ set forth by the United Nation and other organizations to reduce in half both the people living on less than $1 a day and those who suffer from extreme hunger. According to the World Bank, more than 1.2 billion people fit this description.

Pet ownership is more expensive [...] Continue Reading…