alt.energy.renewable

wrote in message
news:8ac345e5-3ce6-4440-90e8-7c1eb64efa2b@x19g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> The biofuel advocates cannot make honest arguments and rarely get
> their facts right. I do not work for any company and do not own any
> stocks, My web page calls for use of oil only until it can be
> replaced with sulfur free gasoline made from atmospheric CO2 with
> energy provided by nuclear power. Biofuels can never replace crude
> oil.
cut.....

Well, I'm all for making hydrocarbons from CO2 and nuclear energy. It's a
great concept, but there are zero, count 'em zero plans, proposals, designs,
projects or licenses projected to do so. It's an interesting long term
concept but is not ready for prime time and can do nothing to alleviate the
ruinous dependence on foreign oil with its ever increasing out of control
prices. This may happen perhaps in 20 or 30 years, but not at present.

All petroleum whether it comes form North Dakota, Anwar, or where ever will
be pegged to OPEC prices and, therefore, will be subject to the ever
increasing ruinous spiral that is the main cause of today's problems.
Despite what you claim, the increasing prices of food and other commodities
like metals, wood, concrete and so on is a direct function of the price of
energy which is out of control and beyond our reach. Biofuels are NOT the
problem you claim. While you may not work for Exxon, you none the less, sing
their song.

Interestingly, the very thing that may help us in our quest for energy
independence and price stability you are vehemently opposed to. That makes
no sense. While, of course, there are problems and concerns within the
biofuel industry and some of what you say is true, your over emphasis and
dire warnings serve no purpose and are far from reality. According to the
Wall Street journal, biofuels are already helping to hold petroleum prices
in check. They claim that oil would be well over $120 if it were not for
that pressure. Biofuels are and will continue to be important in that
regard. Furthermore, if that relationship is true, biofuels actually help
hold food prices lower than they would otherwise be rather than the
opposite.

Your whole discussion on algae is in error. For openers, algae doesn't use
sugar but rather CO2 and sunlight. Furthermore, numbers I see claim an
efficiency per area 100 times better than corn. This is in pilot stages now
and it shows great promise. More on algae later.