Reply to: £64 to fill my car up

[Churchill]

We've had it too easy living off a carbon credit built up by the previous administration (the carboniferous period). The solution is to make oil more expensive. Either that or civilisation will breakdown as we know it, with death and pestilence closely followed. Doomed.

p.s. You are all going to die.

Hopefully not for a long time...

[TimberWolf]

We've had it too easy living off a carbon credit built up by the previous administration (the carboniferous period). The solution is to make oil more expensive. Either that or civilisation will breakdown as we know it, with death and pestilence closely followed. Doomed.

p.s. You are all going to die.

[Ardesco]

That's fair enough, but I still think that a lot of my rant stands. Nearly all these ideas are still in the early experimentation and research phase, and every article one reads about even the most promising options is liberally sprinkled with the word "could".

They have already proved a 40%~ conversion rate which to my mind isn't really a could.

We don't have an option which everyone can throw themselves behind. It's all, "This could work. We should have some idea in the next 5-10 years. Hopefully".

In the current political environment alternative energy schemes are what you get funding for, no matter how ridiculous, or unlikely to succeed they may be. I suspect that the oil companies are not that worried about alternative energy sources because they know we have enough oil to last the foreseeable future, and expect to be able to get oil from another source when our current stocks run out.

I'm being pessimistic, I know, but we get through about 85 million barrels of oil per day at the moment, and that's just pumping the stuff straight out of the ground. It's going to be a challenge for the microalgae to produce that sort of output. And they have to be processed before you even get oil to send to the refineries.

What is more expensive? Growing a load of algae and processing it in a refinery, or building an oil platform, drilling out oil and then transporting it back to the refinery?

As far as I'm aware the current theory is that it is the microalgae that produce the oil in nature, this is why they started trying to produce oil from microalgae in the first place. If this is the case oil is not going to run out in the near future because it is being produced as we speak. They are already finding oil in oilfields that were previously though to have been drained.

We're currently told that there is enough oil left in the ground for another 50-100 years... but prices of fuel and food are already rising to the point where a lot of people can't afford to eat. Interesting times.

Fuel and food prices have very little to do with the amount of oil we may have left and a lot more to do with government mismanagement of the economy, tax, and the monopoly that is OPEC.

[Churchill]

We're currently told that there is enough oil left in the ground for another 50-100 years... but prices of fuel and food are already rising to the point where a lot of people can't afford to eat. Interesting times.

Yup, it's about time we had a revolution...

(see you all in about 25 years when they let me out...)

[dang65]

Before you rubbish something next time you may want to do a bit of research and ensure that you are ranting about the right thing.

That's fair enough, but I still think that a lot of my rant stands. Nearly all these ideas are still in the early experimentation and research phase, and every article one reads about even the most promising options is liberally sprinkled with the word "could".

We don't have an option which everyone can throw themselves behind. It's all, "This could work. We should have some idea in the next 5-10 years. Hopefully".

I'm being pessimistic, I know, but we get through about 85 million barrels of oil per day at the moment, and that's just pumping the stuff straight out of the ground. It's going to be a challenge for the microalgae to produce that sort of output. And they have to be processed before you even get oil to send to the refineries.

We're currently told that there is enough oil left in the ground for another 50-100 years... but prices of fuel and food are already rising to the point where a lot of people can't afford to eat. Interesting times.

[Churchill]

when I was last in the local RR dealer I spied a stealthy Overfinch RR Sport which the the salesman (RR/LR nut) comended me on recognising. It was a customers and had to wait a while on getting it however he put up with the boardom with buying an Audi RS4.... Aye its a wee shame for you my man and apprently he had this tuned in Germany after his overfinch arrived

WHERE'S MY LOTTERY WIN FFS!!!

The difference in cost per mile between diesel and petrol is 0.1p Now which would you prefer to drive?

[roadster198]

Just been on to Stratstone to find me a good 4.2 SC for around the same money.

400bhp....!

when I was last in the local RR dealer I spied a stealthy Overfinch RR Sport which the the salesman (RR/LR nut) comended me on recognising. It was a customers and had to wait a while on getting it however he put up with the boardom with buying an Audi RS4.... Aye its a wee shame for you my man and apprently he had this tuned in Germany after his overfinch arrived

WHERE'S MY LOTTERY WIN FFS!!!

[Pinto]

Think Threaded size!

Bloody Hell, now that's just greed!

[Churchill]

Did you get your RR yet my man?

Just been on to Stratstone to find me a good 4.2 SC for around the same money.

400bhp....!

[roadster198]

Nope, very liquid at the moment, and staying that way until I find the right pad!

Did you get your RR yet my man?

[TimberWolf]

Easier to just grow some more algae?

Fish would gobble it all up?

Presumably those algal blooms one hears about every so often are shortly by a cod bloom or somesuch, and no more algae?

[Churchill]

Wouldn't a shedload of land only be big enough for a shed?

I'm talking about a mighty big shed! Think Threaded size!

[Ardesco]

How come we can't replicate what the algae (and other plants) do though?

Easier to just grow some more algae?

[Churchill]

How come we can't replicate what the algae (and other plants) do though?

My ex-wifes cooking could do that. You'd never crap solid again!

[TimberWolf]

How come we can't replicate what the algae (and other plants) do though?