Bio fuels

[Curtis Burisch]

>> What about algae the produce large amounts of complex hydrocarbons  
>> per unit
>> of input sunlight, as the syn biology proposal I mentioned would do.
>> Granted, it's a tough job as Charlie pointed out, but the price of
>> equipment for synthetic biology is falling faster than Moore's  
>> law....so
>> there is at least a reasonable chance that something like this could  
>> work
>> in 5-25 years.

>And algae or photosynthetic bacteria breed fast, so evolutionary  
>biology as well as synthetic biology and genetics may have a large  
>role to play.

Efficiency is sub-1%, and we need to use the surface of this planet
efficiently. Sorry, this doesn't cut it.

Rgds
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