Forcing God's Hand
Pat Robertson

Actually working to immanentize the eschaton is supposed to be unChristian, according to most denominations. But there is a significant Dispensationalist movement in the US that can hardly contain its glee when US or Israeli actions seem to fulfill one of their prophecies.

Muslims, you may not be aware, believe Jesus is the second most important prophet and also revere all the Old Testament fortune-tellers.

Interestingly, they believe that Jesus himself will return to aid the 12th Imam (aka the Mahdi) at the Final Battle. So the Iranians are working towards exactly the same goal as the Americans. That's the scary part.

I had an interesting chat with a Mennonite once. He was from a group newly arrived here in Belize from the US. I quickly ascertained that he had very sketchy knowledge of the differences between various Christian denominations. Then I asked if his group had any links with the long-standing Mennonite communities here and he said 'No, they are not even Christians.'
My Methodist parents did not view Mormons as proper Christians, but at least there are some actual doctrinal differences there.

The process you describe is the traditional approach and it is a problem.

Having done considerable googling on the subject I have come up with a potential alternative:
Remove most of the water with a hydrocyclone.
Crack the cell walls with ultrasonics and/or microwaves.
Transesterify the still-wet goop with super-critical methanol.
Recover the excess methanol with a flash drum.
Separate the biodiesel, glycerol, remaining water and algae residue with another hydrocyclone and settling tanks and filters.
None of this is very energy intensive and is conducive to a continuous process.

All the elements are known to work (though not necessarily with algae) but as far as I know no-one has put them all together. I'd like to see someone try it, so it is my gift to you Slashdotters!

Another important element seems to be coming along nicely: efficient conversion of glycerol to methanol. Turn the main by-product into a feedstock.

The potential of algae is much greater than the hurdles, I think.

There are environmentalists advocating ethanol fuel from corn?
If they are referring to the Renewable Fuels Association they've made a mistake.

Some of my tax dollars (hypothetically) went towards opening the road. Not enough to claim ownership perhaps, but maybe enough to have some say in who can.
Suppose some aliens turned up tomorrow and claimed the Moon for themselves. Fair enough?

Yes, but those evildoers would mostly be beneath the notice of history if it wasn't for their ability to move the masses with the lever of religion.
There are other levers, but religion is the longest and comes most easily to hand.

You've been foxed by the newspeak. American foreign 'aid' is not handing out charity to feckless brown people. It is a clever way to funnel tax dollars to US corporations and at the same time bind other nations as indentured vassals to the Empire.

Maybe you're too young to remember, but Blair only exacerbated the "internal market" (he promised to abolish it before he was elected). It was actually introduced by Thatcher in 1990.

There are only five references believed by some to be about Jesus in ancient non-Christian texts. None of them are from within several decades of Jesus' putative lifetime. All of them are slight and ambiguous. Most of them have had their authenticity questioned by scholars.
No historical record of Jesus from his lifetime exists, even in Christian writing. Wikipedia does not contradict this fact.

A generation ago, not a single person was punished for the My Lai Massacre

Nearly true. Wikipedia says:

Everyone else involved was either acquitted or never prosecuted.

What are the proposals, what do they cost, what are the risks, the benefits, etc, etc? Also where are the green groups pushing for them, advocating for it?

Here's one: Carbon tax and dividend.
I don't know how you missed it, it was all over NPR for several minutes a couple of years ago.

The fire was at McAfee's compound near Orange Walk on the mainland, not his house on Ambergris Caye (contrary to Fox's lazy assumption).

This time of year it's very dry, especially up north. Bush fires are not uncommon. The caretaker claimed it was a bush fire that took out the buildings. It's plausible, though it doesn't say much for his caretaking skills.

In the Air
Far from critical but gives some insight into how IV does what it does.
Basically, Myhrvold gathers some of his rich and smart buddies in a room where they brainstorm furiously. Then the notes are passed onto his team of PhDs and lawyers to work the ideas up into patents. Occasionally they might build a prototype of something but it's mostly just very lucrative breeze shooting.

A contrary web page.

There was more than one church in those days. The church of Rome was Paul's. He appointed Linus its first bishop.
It's doubtful Peter was ever in Rome. His church was probably in Jerusalem or Antioch, if it (or he) ever existed.