70% of earth'S oxygene is produced by plankton, and the plankton levels are already being drastically decimated by fishes whose natural enemies - predatory species, especially sharks - man has brought to the brink of exticntion. In many maritime areas, sharks has been reduced to level below 10% of the orignal population, and the effect oif this is immense and amongst othe rfactors has brought the ecosystem seriously off balance.
Whomever considers farming algeas on large scale hopefully spends some very intense thinking about how that could affect plankton levels in the future, since plankton already is threatened by many other factors as well.
Biofuel I do not consider to be an option for the highly industrialsed, but small nations in europe, and america. Scandinavia has the space and natural ressources to farm biofuel plants on land for it'S own usage, so has Brazil, and maybe Russia, if only it would. with China, I already get doubts.
Biofuel imo is a welcomed desparate attempt of that lobby that does not wish to realise that we need to do much more, and that a first step to that is to realize that we simply cannot go on anymore like we did. Our ways of living have to chnage, and it will be a loss of comfrotable otpions, coming at much higher prices. It will become tough, and very much so.
But it seems mankind will not act before nature has started to pick people away one by one even in the industrialised countries. Mass dying for natural desasters and changing environments in the third world obviously does not trouble many minds over here - the dying happens far, far away, so people think.
I hate to say it but in the past four years I have changed my mind and think that nuclear energy is a risky and very bad option with a lot of problems coming from it (waste, security risks, silent contamination) that nevertheless we cannot afford to ignore. At least for the forseeable future of the next 100 years. I simply see no alternative being available in time that could shoulder the energy levels needed in the near future. The German way of banning all nuclear powerplants in the next years, I consider to be madness today. when this plan was introduced quite some years ago, I was for it. Well, everybody is wrong at times. meanwhile, the Bologna process, wanting to reduce energy consummation levels, has totally collapsed. we do not see declining but massively raising energy consummaion levels worldwide. If Bologna illustrates anything, then this: how life-threatening far apart politicians and reality are. even today they still try to tell us that we could do something to stop or slow climate change - while the truth is the only answer we need to find anymore is how not to loose grip an dnot falling out of the rollercoaster we are riding in and that already has left starting position some time ago and is about to dive into the first spiral.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2...e.html?ref=rss
It is not aboiut prevention, and most likely not about delaying climate chnage - it is only about adapting to it and how to survive it without mass dying of biblical scales. Planting algeas is nice and well. but maybe we should not farm them for our damn cars, but for eating. has anyone noticed that the prices for food exploded last year - and currently have entered a ohase of rasies again? and that now stockmarkets have discovered food stocks as a speculation object, which means nothing else thant artificial shortages will be created to push prices even more, and thus raise some anonymous a$$###es' profits and wins? there is this movie with Arnie, Total Recall, where in the colony on Mars a huge company raises taxes or demands money for quantums of breathing air. Well, we are getting nearer to that, at least regarding sweet water, and basic food supplies. and, who knows, maybe regarding air as well in some distant future - never say never again.