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| View Larger Image | Green Algae Strategy: End Oil Imports And Engineer Sustainable Food And Fuel (Volume 1) | Paperbackby Mark Edwards (Author)
| List Price: | $24.99 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | CreateSpace | | Page Count: | 262 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 11, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 28,735th |
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Product Description
The oldest, tiniest yet fastest growing plant on Earth promises to provide sufficient energy to displace oil imports and yield nutritious and affordable food and clean, carbon neutral biofuel. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 11 reviews)
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A very dissapointing read by Larry Hagedon (Iowa USA)  1 Stars
November 18, 2009
The author is obviously full of knowledge of algae, yet his book is of small value for anyone wishing to put his knowledge to practical use. I had hoped for solid usable information about how algae is grown and harvested and that is lacking.
Perhaps worse is all the ink the author wastes in an ill conceived hatchet job on other bio technologies such as ethanol from corn. His book is full of glaring errors of fact concerning corn growing and ethanol distilling.
One example is his going on and on about how much water farmers must apply to their corn for each gallon to ethanol produced. I wonder if he understands that only 2 percent of the corn in America is irrigated, the other 98 percent does just fine from the rain and has no water applied to it by farmers at all.
He makes much ado about the burning of food, claiming that as some corn is used for food, it must be somehow immoral to use any corn for other purpose like fuel. Does he not know that there are hundreds of uses for corn and that we grow ample corn for all these uses? If we were to only grow corn for food, we must cut our corn production massively to avoid over production. Thousands of consumer products would dissapear from the shelves of American stores, or have to be reformulated to be made from other raw materials like oil.
He waxes poetic about the many food uses for green algae and the many nations that consume it in large quantities, and indeed any sushi bar has much green algae on the menu. He then promotes green algae as a source of fuel, oblivious to the fact that if making fuel from corn is burning food, then so too is making fuel from green algae burning food.
Don't waste your money on this author.
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Green Algae Strategy by Richard K. Sutz (Scottsdale, Arizona United States)  5 Stars
May 09, 2009
I read the book and it opened a new window of opportunity about which I was not previously familiar. Ithink it shold be a must rad for every member of the UN, World Bank, UN and the USA Department fo energy.
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Fabulous book by A. Ewen (USA) 5 Stars
May 07, 2009
GAS offers an optimistic assessment of our future for food and fuel.
Great content. Well researched and expertly written.
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Good stuff by Ted Gilson (Florida)  4 Stars
April 13, 2009
Great book for people wanting to explore alternative energy sources for fun and profit. There is Green in Green.
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Green Strategies = Algae by M. Jurgensen (Mesa, AZ) 4 Stars
December 10, 2008
Mark Edwards book "Green Algae Strategy" provides another option in our nations' search for ways to "go green". Edwards outlines nicely the pros of further development in the area of using algae as a form of fuel and food. Algae is a CO2 rich plant, it removes CO2 from the air and creates pure oxygen. The use of algae helps solve many problems facing the world today such as excessive CO2 emissions, limited fuel stores (reduce importing), and world-wide hunger.
With changes in technology happening daily, it is a good time to introduce possible alternative fuels that can provide more energy efficient and clean ways of running our cars, heating our homes, and feeding our families. Unfortunately, developing new concepts of energy production takes time, however, this book gives a great guideline of how algae can be cultivated, used, and mainstreamed as long as we all are open to change and dedicated to improving our environment.
There are some drawbacks of using algae, it may be difficult to convince people to allow algae to cover large bodies of water and to use algae in many of the foods we consume daily. Most people have a negative perception of algae which would take time to overcome before it can be used to its full extent. Algae cultivation is not cheaper than other forms of clean energy such as solar or wind power, but has the benefit of creating liquid fuel.
Everyone has heard of global warming and a lot of people are already taking steps in their everyday life to try and reduce CO2 emissions, algae takes CO2 from the air and produces oxygen. Edwards would like to see the growth of algae becoming part of the economy, instead of farmers growing all crops, there would be algae farmers. The "Green Algae Strategy" is a worthwhile read to understand and appreciate forms of clean energy that are available if we are all willing to be conscientious and responsible consumers and if we all push for change. The many uses and possible outcomes of encouraging the use of algae are numerous and advantageous to our future and the future of our children.
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