http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0111/p01s03-sten.html

This design features the harvest of biodiesel from the algae that is used to soak up the CO2 from the coal combustion.

a further ptoduct after the biodiesel is natural gas, which can then be stored and burned instead of coal, or better yet run through a catalytic fuel cell to produce electricity directly.

Multi-fuel plants like this that store wind and solar power, in the form of natural gas, can cleanly buffer the times when wind and solar power does not keep pace with grid demand.  And the use of coal can gradually be phased out, but without idling the expensive turbines and generators, they can then burn mainly natural has from algae production.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/1/6/193649/7888/#12

Projections
Those pessimistic projections tend to move us all closer to ...  the ultimate pessimism.  Death.

Human energy is  better invested in hopeless causes, like this green energy revolution, than in really hopeless causes, like living out self fullfilling disasters, one oil war, climate shift, and terror attack after another.

Break the cycle.

Was the idea of producing millions of ships, planes, aircraft, tanks, trucks, guns  ...and the atom bomb (talk about looking impossible!!) in a few short years, to win WW 2, impossible?

We are in a downward spiral, a cold/hot war over energy.  And there are extra WMDs out there that anyone can buy for the right price.

This production of green energy revolutionary "war" machines needs to be approached as WW 2 war production was.  This is global survival at stake, not just national.

Build the millions of solar panels and geothermal heat pumps, like duuhbya has at his ranch, and millions of wind machines from home size all the way to 1000 foot industrial scale.  And the millions of electric cars, buses, trucks, trains, and yes even aircraft.  

We can win these series of neverending cycles of oil war with a massive war production effort.

No more need for oil, no more oil wars and climate disaster.

All over the news channels!

The same old rummi line.  Repeated by various cable news talking head retired military experts.

These middle managment military retired colonels are spewing this point. 

 If you wear more body armor and have uparmored humvees the bad guys will use bigger bombs...and get you anyway.

They are protecting their friends and relatives, administrators in the pentagon who bought into the neoconman war on the cheap plan. 

Someone has to pay for the mistake of not supplying the very best armor to US troops.  This has been delayed for YEARS! 

And is public knowledge.  The pentagon has finally ordered the new body armor?  Just recently.   Ass covering needs to be done.

All kinds of excuses are being made, but this is the main one.  Repeated over and over..it started with rummi in Iraq. 

Rummi  told the guardsman who asked about the missing armor upgrades, after riding from the airport in a specially super uparmored halliburton vehicle (I bet that one transport contract would have paid for body armor for all of US troops and uparmored humvees!), that fatality in combat is fate, armor does not matter.  If one has your number on it, your time is up.

The more the armor the bigger the bombs the enemy will use.

One aspect of that lie is true...the insurgents have unlimited quantities of explosives.  The shock and awe march to baghdad, neoconman war on the cheap strategery, left saddam's huge ammo dumps full of explosives unguarded.

They were looted, and those explosives provide a practically unlimited supply of improvised explosive devices, IEDs to kill US troops.

The level of criminal negligence in the conduct of these oil wars does rise to the level of prosecution and impeachment.  The fact that this can't and won't happen, makes it clear that the US government has been subverted by a coup.

The US constitution has been suspended since the 2000 appointment of Bush/Cheney.