For Jimmy’s benefit – the playpump is alive and well and has been operating for years in South Africa for pumping borehole water in school grounds and poor communities. Many of the children are from child-headed households, so poor that they don’t even get food before they go to school, but they enjoy playing on the roundabouts that pump up water for them.

For Jimmy’s benefit – the playpump is alive and well and has been operating for years in South Africa for pumping borehole water in school grounds and poor communities. Many of the children are from child-headed households, so poor that they don’t even get food before they go to school, but they enjoy playing on the roundabouts that pump up water for them.

He’s a smart kid to be thinking about this but it dialectics none the less.

He’s a smart kid to be thinking about this but it dialectics none the less.

What is important that we have young and talented people like Javier, who are interested to improve our not so well working societies. The vital part is, that we have continuous new ideas forthcoming. The technical details can be worked out by various experts.

Mr. John Thomas (first comment above), I hope that your name is not an indication of what you might be, but hopefully I am wrong (no intention to hurt, only to nudge). Please tuck your ego away, and if you have some expertise on the matter (as you imply), rather share it with others who could use your help.

What is important that we have young and talented people like Javier, who are interested to improve our not so well working societies. The vital part is, that we have continuous new ideas forthcoming. The technical details can be worked out by various experts.

Mr. John Thomas (first comment above), I hope that your name is not an indication of what you might be, but hopefully I am wrong (no intention to hurt, only to nudge). Please tuck your ego away, and if you have some expertise on the matter (as you imply), rather share it with others who could use your help.

Do you keep up with any technologies outside of the power of negativity?

I am not an energy or power plant engineer or designer, just a Florida Contractor.

However, I was lucky enough to have a Talented father that I traveled with extensively around the world who was involved in power plant design and construction beginning in the late 60’s, both your “standard” and alternative designs, and one of the problems they had beginning in the 70’s was how to deal with the emissions leaving the stacks, of course in 3rd world countries, this wasn’t a problem, just let it go,unless,, it there was a means to make money from it, or make them think it was profitable in some way. My piont being they were using anerobic digesters in the 70’s and 80’s(they had the process set up on only 4 acres of land that processed the same amount as 20acres in previous trials, that was all they’d give them) that they passed only a portion of the stack gases thru (what I can only call algae regenerators or growth promoters as I dont know the technical terms) that reduced NOx And CO2 reductions and in the process generated HUGE amounts of the algae that had to be drained off almost daily that was processed used to make a fuel oil(albeit green-ish in color) that they used in the fleet vehicles in projects from Saudia Arabia, Greece, areas of the U.S. and where I finally settled on one of his final Projects which was the Big bend Power plant near Tampa Florida. He was also one of the key team members that came up with the wet coal bed theory of burning fuel that allowed coal to be substituted for Oil with out major retooling. Riley Stoker’s Main mission was to reduce emissions from convestional power plants while making them more efficient, culminating in the development of a process that led to the effieciency of coal gasification reaching a piont that only passing it thru Biofilters such as the Anerobic Algae filters produced enough biodeisel to run a couple peaking generators that produced 25MW on a weekly basis.

Keep in mind your getting this 2nd hand from the son of one of the people that designed the above described, and I’m only repeating what was excplained to me during years of travel.

but for Someone to say to a 15 year old that continuous anerobic generation is a nearly impossible pain in the ass all I can do is quote my father “We just keep dumping the S–t (I assume he meant CO2 and NOx gases) in there and it grows so fast we had to figure out something worthwhile to do with it other than dump it on the ground before it clogged the outlet filters and started running all over”, He was somewhat of a wanna be comedian.

Maybe the Kid read a paper somewhere everyone else thought was a waste of time?

Wasn’t Einstien considered a crackpot and a dropout, He failed math for crying out loud.

100 years ago we were trying to get off the ground.

“640k ought to be enough for anybody.” – Bill Gates, Co–Founder and CEO of Microsoft, 1981

One note I wanted to make, I seem to remember that they also recirculated gas emitted from the algae tanks (or tubes was a more accurate description) into the firing section of the steam generators as this also reduced the final NOx and Sulphur emissions? just from that process alone, amazing algae

Do you keep up with any technologies outside of the power of negativity?

I am not an energy or power plant engineer or designer, just a Florida Contractor.

However, I was lucky enough to have a Talented father that I traveled with extensively around the world who was involved in power plant design and construction beginning in the late 60’s, both your “standard” and alternative designs, and one of the problems they had beginning in the 70’s was how to deal with the emissions leaving the stacks, of course in 3rd world countries, this wasn’t a problem, just let it go,unless,, it there was a means to make money from it, or make them think it was profitable in some way. My piont being they were using anerobic digesters in the 70’s and 80’s(they had the process set up on only 4 acres of land that processed the same amount as 20acres in previous trials, that was all they’d give them) that they passed only a portion of the stack gases thru (what I can only call algae regenerators or growth promoters as I dont know the technical terms) that reduced NOx And CO2 reductions and in the process generated HUGE amounts of the algae that had to be drained off almost daily that was processed used to make a fuel oil(albeit green-ish in color) that they used in the fleet vehicles in projects from Saudia Arabia, Greece, areas of the U.S. and where I finally settled on one of his final Projects which was the Big bend Power plant near Tampa Florida. He was also one of the key team members that came up with the wet coal bed theory of burning fuel that allowed coal to be substituted for Oil with out major retooling. Riley Stoker’s Main mission was to reduce emissions from convestional power plants while making them more efficient, culminating in the development of a process that led to the effieciency of coal gasification reaching a piont that only passing it thru Biofilters such as the Anerobic Algae filters produced enough biodeisel to run a couple peaking generators that produced 25MW on a weekly basis.

Keep in mind your getting this 2nd hand from the son of one of the people that designed the above described, and I’m only repeating what was excplained to me during years of travel.

but for Someone to say to a 15 year old that continuous anerobic generation is a nearly impossible pain in the ass all I can do is quote my father “We just keep dumping the S–t (I assume he meant CO2 and NOx gases) in there and it grows so fast we had to figure out something worthwhile to do with it other than dump it on the ground before it clogged the outlet filters and started running all over”, He was somewhat of a wanna be comedian.

Maybe the Kid read a paper somewhere everyone else thought was a waste of time?

Wasn’t Einstien considered a crackpot and a dropout, He failed math for crying out loud.

100 years ago we were trying to get off the ground.

“640k ought to be enough for anybody.” – Bill Gates, Co–Founder and CEO of Microsoft, 1981

One note I wanted to make, I seem to remember that they also recirculated gas emitted from the algae tanks (or tubes was a more accurate description) into the firing section of the steam generators as this also reduced the final NOx and Sulphur emissions? just from that process alone, amazing algae

To put it to use, one needs to build it which takes money, which takes someone staking prototypes on high risk and that takes lawyers, accountants, paid “professional” business managers and many guarantees (these days anyway). To do all this, it takes proprietary security on anything truly new and “hit the market first and hard” for anything not patentable. This takes secrecy which precludes publicity. The whole system is very tough to get into so the usual path becomes create a different business to fund the development in-house at cost. This is why you frequently find these developments from people that self-taught themselves all the other disciplines (mostly engineering – to solve their own problems). Unfortunately, the investment community rarely lables these guys anything but crack-pots. Maybe the problem isn’t technical because most of history’s really big achievements came from these same type of people. Try looking at the history of the airplane, telephone, PC and even companies like Google.

On a slight tangent, too many times for me to count, I’ve been told I can’t get a “stake” of a certain amount for some development (without the guarantees and exorbinant ownership) and then find out the other party’s philanthropic donation “to society’s better good” was much higher that year! Talk about a screwed up world.

To put it to use, one needs to build it which takes money, which takes someone staking prototypes on high risk and that takes lawyers, accountants, paid “professional” business managers and many guarantees (these days anyway). To do all this, it takes proprietary security on anything truly new and “hit the market first and hard” for anything not patentable. This takes secrecy which precludes publicity. The whole system is very tough to get into so the usual path becomes create a different business to fund the development in-house at cost. This is why you frequently find these developments from people that self-taught themselves all the other disciplines (mostly engineering – to solve their own problems). Unfortunately, the investment community rarely lables these guys anything but crack-pots. Maybe the problem isn’t technical because most of history’s really big achievements came from these same type of people. Try looking at the history of the airplane, telephone, PC and even companies like Google.

On a slight tangent, too many times for me to count, I’ve been told I can’t get a “stake” of a certain amount for some development (without the guarantees and exorbinant ownership) and then find out the other party’s philanthropic donation “to society’s better good” was much higher that year! Talk about a screwed up world.

I apologize, Mr. Markham, but your story is vague on some of these key issues. I would ask for clarification of the nature of the “invention” here.

I apologize, Mr. Markham, but your story is vague on some of these key issues. I would ask for clarification of the nature of the “invention” here.

Of course, none of these would work in the real world. The title says it all, not that someone found a better Algae energy system, but specifically a 15 year old found it. And we are all supposed to go ‘Awwww…. but a bright lad’ without doubting for a moment whether all this is feasible.

Added to that, some of the above commentators criticize John for his frank opinion, whereas they themselves dont realize what hypocrites they are that they respect the discovery just coz its a kid that did it.

If Javier wants to really make a difference, tell him to go to college, grad school, and publish some peer reviewed papers and then, he might get my respect.

And Frank Baker, accusing John of not trying to make the world a better place… ? Seriously, are you kidding ? He just tried to do that by enlightening your ignorance. Sorry it went over your head.