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Originally Posted by MazdaMatt
theunchosen - Just to clear things up... the algae won't live in your engine... large production facilities will be using the algae to produce fuel to ship to your local gas station...
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lol I am aware of the current design intentions.
I was being hopeful of what might come.
The most likely place this would be installed would be near population centers. Alot of people like to say they would want to put it in the middle of nowhere, but the best place is the shortest distance to said gas stations with available sunlight and CO2.
Cities produce plenty of CO2 and fuel is needed there. Unfortunately sunshine is not a high quantity, but it wouldn't necessarily have to be as most organic systems can exchange a lack of one fuel to over consuming the other. your body and sugars and oxygen are an example. Most systems can consume the fuel(sugars for muscles and CO2 for algae) without its partner(oxygen for your body and sunshine for algae) and then recover the wastes later(lactic acid for your body and various thigns depending on the algae) when oxygen or sunshine is available.
Companies would also want to install this on the roof of their buildings to reduce heating cooling(in New York, Atlanta other large cities) as well as suppliment their electrical systems.
So what we will see if this comes to fruition is some sort of algae on rooftops instead of solar panels, algae fields near power plants and refineries, and algae gardens along the edges of the road. Places where fuel is needed, CO2 is common andsunshine in reasonable supplies.