This is a 2012 update on the NASA Omega Algae Project.
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Re: NASA Omega Algae Project
Robert, didn't you receive a grant for your ideas?
Is the most productive strain of algae being bioengineered to increase output?
Is the most productive strain of algae being bioengineered to increase output?
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Hi Interbane, no I have not obtained any financial support. The MIT Climate Collaboration Project chose my concept with two others out of twenty proposals to be voted on, and I came second in the vote. This produced some interesting discussion, and an offer of collaboration from a group called Ocean Foresters, but no enquiries regarding technical cooperation.Interbane wrote:Robert, didn't you receive a grant for your ideas?
Is the most productive strain of algae being bioengineered to increase output?
I would like to design a laboratory experiment to prove the concept of tidal pumping using bags of fresh water. This is a simple innovation which I don't believe has ever been tested. Jonathan Trent of NASA told me he thought it was brilliant, but unfortunately no one has followed up. I see this tidal pumping method and my related wave pumping inventions as the key to making ocean based algae production commercially profitable as a large new global industry, but it seems this is all a bit too visionary for anyone to take seriously. If anyone reading this wants to help me you can make yourself rich and famous through a practical method to reverse global warming.
On bioengineering, my view is that selection of desirable strains is going to be a better way than genetic modification. Craig Venter of the human genome project is working on GMO research for algae biofuel. My proposal is that the algae input for an ocean based algae factory should be the highest yielding strain from the factory output, continuously monitored out of several parallel production tracks. This artificial selective pressure will encourage rapid mutation into a high CO2 environment, for maximum oil and protein content. The CO2 level in the factory can be gradually raised, using exhaust piped from power stations on land or from mines and cement factories. The best option to start is the Gorgon Project in Australia which is planning to geosequester trillions of cubic feet of CO2 co-produced with natural gas. I am offering them a method to make the CO2 a valuable commodity instead of a costly byproduct. Unfortunately when I wrote to Gorgon I got fobbed off. My proposed process of converting CO2 into hydrocarbons is a method to mine carbon that will be commercially profitable and will enable a rapid paradigm shift to a stable global climate while also producing abundant energy and food.
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Re: NASA Omega Algae Project
A new paradigm for climate stability.
Transforming carbon into useful products is superior to emission reduction as a method to stabilise the global climate. Rather than reduce the amount of carbon emitted into the atmosphere, the focus should be on how this carbon can be mined as a market commodity. This approach means that the fossil fuel economy can become compatible with a stable climate. Like any other product, carbon now seen as waste can be turned into a resource for recycling.
We now have two competing old paradigms, both of which are unscientific. The fossil fuel paradigm ignores global warming. The emission reduction paradigm ignores the economy. We need to put these paradigms together to get a new one, through an economic method to remove carbon from the air and sea. The requirement to achieve this new paradigm is a method to transform carbon dioxide and waste methane into useable products at a scale sufficient to reduce carbon level in the air.
The best, and possibly only, way to turn waste carbon into useful products is to mimic how hydrocarbons occurred in nature. Algae falling to the bottom of shallow seas was heated and pressurised over millions of years, gradually converting carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons. Industrial technology can replicate this process in ways that are rapid and commercially profitable.
A description of possible methods is at this presentation on Ocean Forest Cultivation in Pacific Island Countries - Environmental and Economic Benefits and Strategies given at the Australian National University in June 2014.
Transforming carbon into useful products is superior to emission reduction as a method to stabilise the global climate. Rather than reduce the amount of carbon emitted into the atmosphere, the focus should be on how this carbon can be mined as a market commodity. This approach means that the fossil fuel economy can become compatible with a stable climate. Like any other product, carbon now seen as waste can be turned into a resource for recycling.
We now have two competing old paradigms, both of which are unscientific. The fossil fuel paradigm ignores global warming. The emission reduction paradigm ignores the economy. We need to put these paradigms together to get a new one, through an economic method to remove carbon from the air and sea. The requirement to achieve this new paradigm is a method to transform carbon dioxide and waste methane into useable products at a scale sufficient to reduce carbon level in the air.
The best, and possibly only, way to turn waste carbon into useful products is to mimic how hydrocarbons occurred in nature. Algae falling to the bottom of shallow seas was heated and pressurised over millions of years, gradually converting carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons. Industrial technology can replicate this process in ways that are rapid and commercially profitable.
A description of possible methods is at this presentation on Ocean Forest Cultivation in Pacific Island Countries - Environmental and Economic Benefits and Strategies given at the Australian National University in June 2014.
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