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[dalebert]

1/10 of NM is huge

I don't think he's suggesting that we install bio-reactors all in one big spot. He's just giving an idea of the scale for providing ALL of the U.S. energy needs. We likely wouldn't do that, but this seems like a really viable method of converting sunlight into a useful form of energy storage that could be gradually phasing out a lot of inefficient fuels. The lobbyists will kill it. No doubt.

[Pat McCotter]

I wish these people would quit patting themselves on the back and start building more plants. The one in Carthage shows that it can be done, now prove that it wasn't a fluke!

[Pat McCotter]

May of 2006 was their last press release until this year when they crow about receiving awards.


And then in a blog they state this:

"Virtually every week, CWT receives an inquiry from a municipality or a commercial enterprise that wants us to come build a TCP plant in their area. They've seen us or read about us somewhere, and the logic of what we're doing with TCP instantly registers. We've received literally hundreds of inquiries like this over the past 3 or 4 years. Unfortunately, as a start up company, we're not in a position to pursue most of these yet. But it sure is encouraging to know that our technology makes so much instinctive sense to so many."

[John Edward Mercier]

Algae BD may be more practical for small independent groups.