Earth's Cycles, Once in Concert, Falling Out of Sync

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What is the current thinking on the efficiency of using this source: Subtracting out all costs, prior to calcualting delivered power value.....is it break even yet...if not at what per bbl oil price will the scheme break even? Which industries could utilize the generated power...oil platforms, fishing ops, ocean mining? How far off is the technology, and what is the current cost of managing the effects of the existing bloom?
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Clay Carlton of HI 5:52PM August 11, 2009

I was watching the news the other day and I saw a commercial to which I didn't pay all that much attention at the time, it was about the possibility of using algae and other xenobiotic growths as power. However after reading this article and then reading subsequent essays about the Dead Zone(s) in the world I now have a thought:
Would it not make sense, at least at first, to use this power generating technique to control the dead zones? Harvesting algae before the colonies use up too many nutrients and oxygen in the water and consequently turning that into power. It bears the possibility of being a fleeting application if there is a solution to the Nitrogen Fertilizer situation that causes some dead zones but the fact that it applies to other xenobiotics can make up for the (hopefully) eventual loss of the algae as a power source.

Ender of SC 5:36PM August 05, 2009

Scientists' increases in understanding of these things is also progressing at a fast pace like the chemical and fuel technologies we employed in the last century WITHOUT understanding their effects.
We also jumped ahead and performed surgeries on people BEFORE we knew anything about germs and infection. Now we have done surgery on the whole earth BEFORE knowing what might happen as a result.
But knowledge is catching up as long as we don't "shoot the messengers"

Muser of NM 1:47PM August 05, 2009