so i'm riding in this morning and i make friends with someone named george and we're just cruising along and he starts telling me all about where he works in antarctica and about some of the experiements that are going on there sponsored by nasa and nsf and others.  the most interesting one involved algal filaments producing biodiesel.  i found this fascinating and tried to learn as much as i could from him between vienna and ballston where he jumped off.  and i had planned to research this further, only to find that one of my favorite blogs has written a nice post involving the same concept:

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as i have posted previously, i don't hate cars on principle, i hate the wasteful society and philosophy that drives our whole car-centric transportation system.  it seems to me that renewable energy is soemthing that everyone can get behind.  now if only i can get my cluster association to approve the placement of my new solar panels in my neighbor's parking spots...

-sg