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{"topics":[{"id":"537d74336368723131240100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@someguy111\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d711b6368722f3e2f0000#post_537d711b6368722f3e2f0000\r\nIn the long run not going to work cause eventually alternative energy sources' costs are going to go so low that the oil industry will have to break their ankles to limbo that low.","author":"38b55cdf63616403d7560600"},{"id":"537d749863687204e2160000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@Whatevs\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d73f26368723049020100#post_537d73f26368723049020100\r\n[bq=\"Whatevs\"]\"@someguy111\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d6e2f63687253c8500000#post_537d6e2f63687253c8500000\r\nthat's an emotional argument. We're done here. You think regulations are magical.\r\n\r\n\r\n\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d6ef563687250a8910000#post_537d6ef563687250a8910000\r\nNo you're wrong child. It does that too. It still causes more environmental harm in the way I describe.\r\nCome back later.[/bq]\r\nActually algae oil is good cause it takes out far more carbon than it puts out.  It takes out double the amount of carbon it puts into the atmosphere.  So when it reaches prime time driving your car would actually be good for the environment.","author":"38b55cdf63616403d7560600"},{"id":"537d7504636872069b1f0000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d74336368723131240100#post_537d74336368723131240100\r\nThat's a day that can't get here soon enough! I'd love to see people like Bush and the Koch brothers after oil dries up and is quickly replaced.\r\n","author":"5010fa077f123b1e4f00104e"},{"id":"537d753c63687205713c0000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d749863687204e2160000#post_537d749863687204e2160000\r\ntalking about corn, I know little about algae so I don't comment. And I'm fairly certain that's a market development.","author":"4fe16df67f123b13e400003f"},{"id":"537d759a6368720626400000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d749863687204e2160000#post_537d749863687204e2160000\r\nI thought algae was carbon neutral. Well even if it is, it's far better than gas.","author":"5010fa077f123b1e4f00104e"},{"id":"537d76c9636872395a090000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@Whatevs\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d753c63687205713c0000#post_537d753c63687205713c0000\r\nAlgae oil is amazing.  You could have plants to grow the algae in the city and do all the stuff to turn it into oil in the city.  You wouldn't need to transport it thousands of miles; you could just do it right there.\r\n\r\nThe problem with it, like I said, is that the process to crack open the cell walls is expensive.  Once they figure out how to do that cheaply the oil industry is going to be a dead parrot in that it will be no more, it will have ceased to be, it will have ceased to be alive.","author":"38b55cdf63616403d7560600"},{"id":"537d77cf6368723cc7190000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d76c9636872395a090000#post_537d76c9636872395a090000\r\nI read that they can get 5,000 gallons of fuel _per week_ per acre, as opposed to 150 gallons _per year_ per acre from corn.","author":"5010fa077f123b1e4f00104e"},{"id":"537d78216368723c0a300000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@someguy111\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d77cf6368723cc7190000#post_537d77cf6368723cc7190000\r\nThat's cause you don't need farmland.","author":"38b55cdf63616403d7560600"},{"id":"537d78e7636872395ab30000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"You won't believe how versatile the \"Hemp\":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp plants are. I don't care about the drug purposes for this plant. But man! Look at it's uses.","author":"4fde5cee945b700a970060fc"},{"id":"537d78f36368723998760000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"With synthetic biology, we could soon (in a few years, maybe a decade) engineer microbes and algae that produce biofuels. Just put some artificial X and Y nucleotides in them and they won't survive if they escape.","author":"50b70eeb7f123b1a02000097"},{"id":"537d792c6368723c868a0000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d78216368723c0a300000#post_537d78216368723c0a300000\r\nIt's also because algae grows very fast and continues to grow year round and the amount of oil you get is something like 50% of the total mass of the plant compared to something like 2% from the total mass of corn. Also algae overs pretty much the entire acre too, instead of corn crops which have quite a large gap between each plant leaving much of the land unused. Algae is a much better use of space.","author":"5010fa077f123b1e4f00104e"},{"id":"537d79536368723b14a80000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"Is marijuana legal in some states in the US?","author":"4fde5cee945b700a970060fc"},{"id":"537d79ba6368723a38c10000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@SeraphimDawn\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d79536368723b14a80000#post_537d79536368723b14a80000\r\nColorado.","author":"50b70eeb7f123b1a02000097"},{"id":"537d79cb6368723b4ed10000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"!http://i522.photobucket.com/albums/w341/DragonboyGT/1400542319685_zpsf8690fa6.gif?t=1400556434!","author":"5062d6f17f123b3e16001184"},{"id":"537d7a226368723d0c4e0100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@SeraphimDawn\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d78e7636872395ab30000#post_537d78e7636872395ab30000\r\nFun fact: the US government banned the growing of hemp but all of a sudden _required_ farmers to grow it on their land because it was used to make textiles for the war. After the war the farmers were forced to rid the crop from their land or face severe punishment. So basically \"hemp is horrible, it has use no and no purpose other than the devil's weed. Ok now that we needs it's fibers for war, this plant is wonderful and we must grow lots of it, look at how useful it is.\" End of war:\"hemp is the devil's weed it has no use or purpose.\" Look up \"hemp for victory\" Also another fun fact: the US founding documents are printed on hemp paper.","author":"5010fa077f123b1e4f00104e"},{"id":"537d7a226368723bc7440100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@Randomosaur\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d79ba6368723a38c10000#post_537d79ba6368723a38c10000\r\nI bet you, it is those filthy big pharma, oil, and paper industries who are enforcing the anti-hemp laws. They could care they about people getting high.","author":"4fde5cee945b700a970060fc"},{"id":"537d7a7a636872110a060000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@someguy111\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d7a226368723d0c4e0100#post_537d7a226368723d0c4e0100\r\nThose plants would be more useful for everyday needs.\r\nWhat a bunch of hypocrites.","author":"4fde5cee945b700a970060fc"},{"id":"537d7af16368721344280000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@SeraphimDawn\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d79536368723b14a80000#post_537d79536368723b14a80000\r\nIt's legal in a few states for medical use. Only people in those selected states can benefit from it because people from other states are different creatures with different physiology and thus cannot handle cannabis and thus need different laws. ","author":"5010fa077f123b1e4f00104e"},{"id":"537d7b4f636872122f480000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"What's probably going to happen in the next five years is that algae oil costs will reach so low that oil can't compete; solar costs will reach so low that fossil fuels can't compete.  Ten years from now the oil industry is going to be fucked.  It'll be the same with other alternative energy sources as well.","author":"38b55cdf63616403d7560600"},{"id":"537d7b6c63687213f9750000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@SeraphimDawn\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d7a226368723bc7440100#post_537d7a226368723bc7440100\r\nI hope you aren't serious.","author":"50b70eeb7f123b1a02000097"},{"id":"537d7b9663687214289e0000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d7b4f636872122f480000#post_537d7b4f636872122f480000\r\nUnless they can find a way to merciless cripple said alternative energy sources and thus not have to worry about competing.","author":"4f41ee04945b701c41002af7"},{"id":"537d7b9c63687211884b0000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d7b4f636872122f480000#post_537d7b4f636872122f480000\r\nI still think wind power is of some use. No point in tearing down those turbines now that they have already been put up.","author":"5010fa077f123b1e4f00104e"},{"id":"537d7ba363687211e22e0000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"Oh my god this cosplay is awesome!\r\n!https://24.media.tumblr.com/09c9e936d500896f4db855b8cf54e8e6/tumblr_n4gevun1bf1sbn3m7o4_1280.jpg!\r\n!https://31.media.tumblr.com/a1e2a96b9c0b251241608072f6735e03/tumblr_n4gevun1bf1sbn3m7o2_1280.jpg!","author":"38b55cdf63616403d7560600"},{"id":"537d7c176368721134840000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d7b4f636872122f480000#post_537d7b4f636872122f480000\r\nI doubt solar will be worth a damn in only a decade. I really think nuclear is the best option [spoiler] and not just because I will be a Nuclear Engineer in the Navy [/spoiler]","author":"4fe16df67f123b13e400003f"},{"id":"537d7c25636872111e990000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@someguy111\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d7b9c63687211884b0000#post_537d7b9c63687211884b0000\r\nTheir costs are going down as well.\r\n\"@gasmaskangel\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/537d7b9663687214289e0000#post_537d7b9663687214289e0000\r\nOnly the usa and certain countries though; they can't tell *EVERY* country in the world and *EVERY* company in the world they're not allowed to.","author":"38b55cdf63616403d7560600"}]}