I’ve met a ton of WA natives that have never seen anything of WA across the Cascades except the I-90 corridor. Maybe Lake Chelan.

I was talking to a very outdoorsy guy that grew up in Snohomish Co; mentioned Palouse Falls, he had never heard of them.

That’s KSA. The Qataris will just throw his ass in prison for the rest of his life.

Algae are very good at doing certain things and very bad at others. For biofuels, the issue has largely been that people extrapolating from the lab don’t account for the vulnerability of these organisms in the wild (single cell non-extremophile algae don’t form natural monocultures period), and way way way underestimating the entropic costs of dewatering a single celled bug that behaves as a colloid.

But when algae do what they’re good at it works great. No baby formula DHA without (heterotrophic) algae.

They already have their greenwashing ticket, they’ve been funding biofuels work at a biotech in San Diego for the last decade or so, still not making any fuel.

You’re right, it’ll be way less than 1:1. And Chlorella production is really hard to scale. All of the Chlorella produced in the world wouldn’t be enough to feed even a tiny 10kbd refinery.

The article says 98 million cups of coffee. Not thinking many folks brew at 1lb of grounds per cup.

Lol, big oil doesn’t give a shit about this. The whole world together makes about 10-12 million tons of whole coffee a year. The US burns 3 million tons of petroleum a day. The potential scale of this is irrelevant to big oil.

I was up on grand park two weeks ago and the grass was totally brown; rains just started to it would be greening up yet. I would guess this was August or early September.