On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 05:38:49PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 16:22 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Bio-fuels *are* a great idea. > > > > Until you realize *how much* gasoline & diesel this country uses > > (then add 3x more to that for the rest of the world), and the fact > > that stuff like corn ethanol needs lots of (*petrolem* based) > > fertilizer. > > > > (However, sugar cane ethanol in Brazil is a *great* idea, because of > > cane's higher sugar density, Brazil's proximity to the equator and > > lower population). > > Based on things I have researched and processing systems I have seen and > actually went through the motions of getting the nitty-gritty on. > > Algae based Bio-Diesel. 110,000 square miles of "useless desert" flooded > with salt water and seeded with a certain algae... would supply enough > Biofuel for all vehicles (provided all current vehicles were converted > to diesel) in the US with about a 25% energy return on energy used to > process it and transport to filling centers. there is an algae that supposedly has something like 80% "oil" content as that is what makes it float. is this the same stuff? A
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