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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (62839)	1/27/2007 5:26:37 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

I agree that solar (and it's derivatives wind & waves & hydro, for a while) are keys. But the "micro algae" to which you refer which will consume the C02 emissions from the US ramping up it's NG burning -- where will they come from? Because nothings keeping up now, I presume you mean to introduce something new into the oceans, right? My feeling is that unleashing something that would spread to the degree needed could inadvertently alter the ocean environment drastically in ways that are not desired. For example, this summer off the Washington and Oregon coast, there was a brown algae bloom that killed virtually all sea life in the bloom area. And when the small sea life died (and mid sized fish too), thousands of birds starved to death. I saw hundreds of these on the beach at Manzanita & Cannon Beach, Oregon last August. And the problem with algae is that when conditions are ripe, they become irrationally exuberant and that leads to an algae bloom, and that's followed by a massive algae die back and thus you end up with as few or fewer C02 consuming organisms than before. I'd be really careful about wishing for something like that to balance our our carbon emissions. And I hardly trust us humans to fiddle with the oceans on a gigantic scale without totally screwing everything up (and possible disrupting the entire ocean food chain).