Reason 555 to Fight Tar Sands Extraction: We Can Literally Make Fuel Out of Thin Air if We Want To

This is a re-post from Mother Nature Network, demonstrating the potential to make clean, high-efficiency synthetic petroleum, through a process that is rather different from the synthetic crude we're facing here in the USA--- from an irreparably devastating tar sands extraction process wrecking large areas of wild habitat to play around in the sand with big dump-trucks and create toxic tailing-ponds that are leaking by the millions-of-gallons-a-day into the local waterways that provided fish and fresh-water to the indigenous people downstream for generations. It's a vast understatement to say these people have been marginalized and their land polluted.

While Alberta, Canada continues clear cutting a forest the size of Britain, a British scientist is meanwhile working to bring his brilliant work to an industrial scale by 2015, to address the dire need to meet energy needs without exacerbating the climate crisis.

Can you see all the un-met potential we are bypassing by choosing to rely on "bigger is better" dirty fuel mega-corporations for our solutions, in the name of energy "independence" and "security"?

It's folly. Their bottom line is nothing but profit. Revolutionary clean technologies will be filed away under "uneconomical".

There are cheaper, cleaner, better fuel solutions all around us--- in our McDonald's grease, in our AIR for crying out loud---but America, and much of the world beside us, is in too big of a hurried petrol-political Chinese checkers game to see any of it.

So, who is really living the pipe dream?