Mario Cavolo

Next time you sit down to your favourite seaweed wrapped sushi rolls consider that you may find that seaweed both in your stomach and your gas tank someday. Turns out that algae is a much preferred biofuel compared to palm oil or corn for a number of reasons.

The advantages of algae over other types of biofuels, such as palm oil, are significant and help explain the enthusiasm it is generating.

First, algae don't compete with other crops for agricultural land and can even be grown in polluted water. Second, their production consumes large quantities of carbon dioxide, which is a big plus for an industry trying to become carbon-neutral by 2020. Third, algae can be blended with traditional kerosene without the engine or any pipes needing to be significantly modified.

The byproduct of algae production is a high-protein mixture that could eventually be sold for use in pharmaceutical or cosmetic products, thereby helping make the whole project more commercially viable. Last but not least, it has been estimated that algae produces up to 15 times more oil per square kilometer than other biofuel crops.

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Recently I find myself confused by the global warming issue. A couple of years ago, I watched Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" and found it to be enjoyable, insightful and compelling. More recently, I engaged a conversation with a strong supporter of global warming and eco-related issues, which by the way, every one of us living on planet earth should have at least a moderate level of concern and commitment to. Following up, I read a related article by James Anderson which deliberately omitted important facts and misleads it's readers, stating a credible source that since 1998 temperatures have actually dropped.

So, I dug a little deeper and very quickly settled the matter, easily understood and recognized simply by looking at the two graphs below:

1. Yes, over the shorter term period of less than 10 years since 1998, you can see global temperatures have dropped slightly. 1998, by the way, was the hottest year ever recorded. Ok, so since then, global temperatures have been dropping slightly. Here's the graph:

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