Us geological survey

I had better chase up what the US geological survey is

another day, another dollar

Working in the DEM again today;

Dinner with Phil (his B'day yesterday), Kati and Sam Fingas last night after setting up for the DEM christmas party.

Very tired today.

Haven't had a chance to follow Poznam as closely as I would have like, but from the little news that I have seen things didn't really goes as well as could have been hoped. I wonder if things will change now Obama is in the Whitehouse.

Going out to catch up with Kylie Sneddon and a mystery girl that he knows from overseas who has my phone number.

I forgot to mention on the previous post that some freinds came down for the walk. Nick H, Nick R and Shazza (who is going to be nicknamed Shazza until someone tells me how she spells her name, and what her last name is...

Sara and I got engaged, at the Tarkine falls on the weekend. Sara new what I was going to say before I got the words out of my mouth (which did take a while).

The forrest was beautiful and the walk was obviously a success. I am once again astounded that that precious place isn't afforded the recognition that it deserves. I hope that it isn't ruined for ever, it is a truly special place.

Ahh. Dem nights over and done with. 7.55am.

Didn't get any spare time last night. The patients I saw took quite a bit of sorting out. Never mind though.

Today I try and register my old comby van in Tasmania, then hopefully drive it am my mates (Nick and Nick and Sara and Nicks girlfriend (whose name I know but will not attempt to spell) up to the North West Coast. Walking in the Tarkine then back to swansea for dinner and the next day a kayak.

I also will squeeze a trumpet lesson with Maestro Malcolm in today before I leave.

Even if the comby doesn't get registered it sure looks nice. Happy to have done the work on it with Sara's dad, Greg.

Back to work on ? wednesday, so maybe I will write again then.

Eazy Peazy to find info on that prize http://www.carbonpositive.net/viewarticle.aspx?articleID=591

My adventures in ED continue. Once again it is 5am and I am not busy, but not really bored.

Because I have just started this blog I don't think anyone will be reading these comments. At the moment I don't really have a plan for what things I am going to write in here. I Guess I will keep it as a kind of open journal, that's probably what most people do.

Tonight I have been using google to look at potential for atmospheric carbon capture algal biofuels and biosequestration of carbon, possible sites for biosequestration in Australia and (in-between seeing the odd patient).

Atmospheric carbon caputre: I read about this first in Wallace Broeker's book "Fixing Climate".

Apparently in april 2007 Global Research Technologies, demonstrated a machine that performs this task the ACCESS (Atmospheric Carbon CapturE SystemS).
http://www.physorg.com/news96732819.html; I googled the company (http://www.grestech.com/), and it is the one that Broeker describes in his book.

These systems produce streams of CO2 which then need to be used. One way in suggested on the GRS site is for use in producing algae for biofuel feedstock

So I searched on google for algal biofuels, and came up with this site http://http//www.biofuelsdigest.com/blog2/2008/03/19/petrosun-to-launch-first-commercial-scale-algae-farm-for-biofuel-in-us-1831-acre-facility-to-produce-5000-8000-gallons-per-acre/

which seems to be a biofuels news site

and it had this link on it
http://http//www.making-biodiesel-books.com/algae-biodiesel3.html

which started me off dreaming about potential for doing something small like that in Alice Springs. It would be great to combine those two technologies in a small buisness one day.....

The other options was sequestration. I didn't look as hard, however a google search on geosequestration australia found this co-operative http://www.co2crc.com.au/about/. They provided a PDF that suggests that suitable sites might be available around Alice Springs. http://www.co2crc.com.au/dls/factsheets/CO2CRC_FactSheet_08.pdf. However I haven't looked at whether this sort of thing would be possible on a small scale at all.

For my next time I think that I will have a google around and see if I can find out a little about wether it is possible on a small scale and have a read about the prize for achieving atmospheric removal of CO2 with storage that I have heard about in a few places.

good morning

Night shift in DEM seems as good a time as any to start a blog; now off to see some patients....

Sam.