Making biofuel doesn't have to compete with growing food.

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Microbe power : tomorrow's revolution
by Brian J. Ford 1976
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energy and nutrition from algae discussion -
oil from algae
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...Research is under way to start a new industry...oil from algae. Companies like Vertigro are on the cutting edge of tech. development to replace our dependency on imported oil and this tech also may be used to supply nutrients for fertiliser/vitamins etc....Some species of algae are over 50% oil.Unlike ethanol from corn/sugarbeets/sugarcane algae will not take out food producting land to supply energy needs...

...G'day all,

I wonder why this is taking so long. The whole process was described in Brian J Ford's book 'Microbe Power - Tomorrow's Revolution' (1976)

This is over 30 years ago and now they are talking about it again. One wonders.

Hans von Lieven...
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Revealing the ingenuity of the living cell
by Brian J. Ford, August 2006
brianjford.com/06-07-ingenious-biologist.pdf
...No brain/body dichotomy
Cells throughout the body are dividing,
responding, reacting and controlling in
ways that are independent of the human
brain. To me, there is no brain/body
dichotomy. The brain is the body. Neurons
are cells that specialise in handling the
cognitive, higher-order manifestations
that make us look and behave like people.
But the other cells in the body – no matter
how diminutively – have minds of their
own. There have been books and programmes
claiming that human xenotransplant
recipients sometimes manifest attitudes
and traits they never had before, but
which are identical to characteristics of
the deceased organ donor. This is not
much of a mystery to me; even if most of
the personality resides in the brain, there
must be some – perhaps a substantial
amount – that derives from the choreographed
community of autonomous cells
that make us who we are...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_J._Ford
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brianjford.com/wmicpow1.htm
...Since Pasteur proclaimed his germ theory, all microbes have been regarded with suspicion. Not that Pasteur was wrong, but science may have been misguided in allowing its attention to concentrate so fully on only a tiny, rather nasty percentage of the microbe population. The vast majority are health- promoting, energy-supplying organisms vital to our very existence...
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"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
~Groucho Marx
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