Oil Goliaths’ BioFuel Synthetic “Shell Games”
Fix your sick monstrous eyes well Oil Goliaths at what you are and are remembered for. Burn and endure a living hell as Earth’s creatures of the sea, air and land smile as you seal your fate. – Leticia Matlock
In 2007, Craig Venter, cofounder of Synthetic Genomics, was “poised to create the world’s first man-made species, a synthetic microbe that could lead to an endless supply of biofuel….” Could the company “become the ‘Microbesoft’ of biology” as Roger Highfield, Science Editor of the Telegraph asked?
Big oil took notice. In 2009 “Exxon Sinks $600M Into Algae-Based Biofuels in Major Strategy Shift” by Katie Howell of Greenwire. “Exxon is joining a biotech company, Synthetic Genomics Inc., to research and develop next-generation biofuels produced from sunlight, water and waste carbon dioxide by photosynthetic pond scum.”
Speaking of scum and water, I remind you of the “Third Reich↔US Accords. Cost of Doing Business”. Oil is sickening our oceans. But bad as that is, our waterways have long been toxified by discharges from steel, chemicals, weapons and food industries.
Israel, you claim to have a viable desalination process. Do you have filters for this toxic scum?
Algae, scum of the earth, were the superstar of oil scums. But then the spotlight turned off. Why? Discovered what we’ve known all along: Water and Oil Don’t Mix.
But why drop Algae? “We’re not claiming to know all the answers…There are different approaches to what is truly economically scalable, so we’re testing things…” says Venter.
How did Exxon take your change in strategy Venter? It seemed to me Exxon’s Emil Jacobs, Vice President of R&D was dead set in Algae being the one. “It’s fair to say that we looked at all the biofuels options,” Jacobs said. “Algae ended up on top.” So what’s the problem?
Dark Victory?
Biofuel dwellers faced pushback from the Senate and the challenge of renewable fuels standard (RFS). According to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), “Algae-based fuels are the most obvious example, which, despite having characteristics superior to any renewable fuels in commercial production today, have no home in the RFS.”
Plan B. Switch to Microalgae. Venter, founder of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), turned his focus to engineered diatomic Microalgae. A 2015 JCVI Press Release highlights “Efficient Synthetic Biology Methods to Genetically Engineer Microalgae.” Article concludes methods “facilitate advances in engineering these microorganisms to produce important products such as biofuels and chemicals.”
Difference between algae and microalgae? Algae are a photosynthetic organism which uses sunlight to synthesize nutrients from carbon dioxide and water. Algae come in either a unicellular or multicellular while microalgae are unicellular.
According to JCVI, “Microalgae are some of the most abundant and important organisms in aquatic ecosystems. They use light energy to produce lipids for growth and other cellular functions.”
HOWEVER, “While they do this efficiently enough for their own survival, they do not do this naturally at a scale that enables lipid biofuel and chemical production that is cost competitive with current fossil fuel prices.” Basically, Non Scalable means No ROE.
Sure appears Exxon was stringed along by Venter and JCVI. But it also bought the companies playing shell games time. And in the process appeared as “going green” in the publics’ eyes.
Challenges Exxon and other companies are likely to face? Renewable fuels standard deterring in their attempts of achieving “wide-scale commercial development.” Moreover, “Next-wave biofuels that could reduce carbon emissions and displace oil imports are politically popular but have not moved into commercial production as fast as supporters would have hoped.”
But they are financially well supported – private sector and government. Note, “This research is supported by funds from the company, Synthetic Genomics Inc., the United States Department of Energy and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.”
Nuclear ҉ Countering Scum Shell Games
First, you don’t fight fossil fuel companies on their dark turf. It would be like trying to take down Tom Brady on the football field.
It’s time to reconsider the alternative – nuclear. Or, what some argue is the lesser of two evils. Concerns of going “from the fire to the frying pan” are valid. But consider expense is minimal:
1. Previously closed plants can be recommissioned
2. Public and Private investments in new nuclear reactors resurfaced in the last twenty years.
Challenges? Of course. I point out on my webpage, “EPEs Nuclear Reactor Prototypes” scientists are caught in a “catch 22” where the basic challenge lies in Input-Output viability.
Superiority of EPEs nuclear power plants and reactor prototypes highlights the inferiority of others. EPE points to targeted solutions. New ways or “nuclear” possibilities are endless. EPEs aim is to operationalize viable and conducive reactors where the energy output supersedes the input.
Taking a targeted competitive approach, EPE utilizes both fusion and fission in selected locations on Earth and in Space, surpassing projected goal of 2-4 gigawatts at incessant speed utilizing an “ideal solution.” Plasma profusion across the universe can be harnessed.
Control and command is centralized and remotely operated with programed targeted enhancements. Each nuclear power plants and reactor is built utilizing a “solid solution” to withstand equipment failure.
Main objective is to standardize nuclear making it the core energy source.
Let’s face it. Nuclear reactor accidents have occurred in the past and may possibly occur in the future. BUT, consider the alternative. Fossil Fuels carbon emissions are not about if or when. They dangerously are.
Gas explosions and Oil spills since the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster continue – Huntington Beach, California and Golf of Mexico explosion.
Lastly, are you sure fossil fuel companies are “too big to fail?” What if these Goliaths were thrown a wrench? From the beginning of their shell games, their motto appears to be “A good offense is a good defense.”
Oil companies claim concern for the environment attempting to “finding a solution.” Producing biofuel from scum is not viable but it sure buys them time as their oil spills and gas explosions toxify our oceans and kill its creatures.
Stealth offensive → Get them behind the ❽
Away from their home advantage, tackle them off their dirty grid. With no defense, targets are sure to collapse. Remind them, Water and Oil Don’t Mix.