Re:Its bleak. (Score 1)

Sorry Mt View Guy.... algae is not the answer either! http://socialwork.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/D86.RE.Ch.5 .LiquidsX.html The algae section is half way down. Check it out. There are enormous problems wtih the algae process, and the Australian CSIRO concluded it was a net energy loser. I hope they can turn it around, I seriously do... for the sake of my kids. After peak oil we will have to return our sewerage NPK nutrient values to the soil. We'll have to have some safe way of processing it while retaining the nutrients. Algae COULD be the answer but there are enormous technical problems to overcome first. Enormous! It's not the "silver bullet". It might help towards retaining fertilizer from our sewerage, but at this stage I doubt it will make a net energy profit. I'm more inclined to think we should try the standard wind turbines, plus the 24 hour reliable wind power of a Solar chimney, plus Solar PV and everything else we've got on some kind of electric grid transport system... but I'm all for saying goodbye the private car! We cannot afford the energy to drive to work, McDonalds, school, etc. We cannot afford the energy to construct vastly energy greedy suburbia. Hence the title of the movie! (See previews at website.) www.endofsuburbia.com