alt.energy.renewable

On 1 Mar, 03:48, "Silver" wrote:
> 30 million acres is not a big area relative to the size
> of even one US state - Texas.
>
It's about 50,000 square miles, or a "field" of 200 miles by 250
miles.

The Sonora desert between Mexico, California and Arizona could
accommodate most of that

> Besides, by year 2012, there will be more fuel efficient hybrid
> cars on the road consuming less fuel..hopefully.
>
> wrote in message
>
> news:6408cd4d-73dd-42ec-8b8e-8b1eac23deb2@8g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>
> >I use to have some hope that biodiesel from algae might be a serious
> > fuel source some day, but after much exploration and doing the math,
> > it seems to me to be hardly worth the effort. The following is the
> > new update to my webpage on the biofuel hoax at:
>
> >http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html
>
> > " To make biodiesel, algae are used as organic solar
> > panels which output oil instead of electricity. Research reports brag
> > that algae can produces 15 times more fuel per acre of land than
> > growing corn for ethanol, but that still means we would need
> > approximately 30 million acres of algae ponds in the USA to meet 100%
> > of our projected automotive fuel usage by the year 2022. That figure
> > does not include fuel for aircraft and ships. Those algae schemes
> > that use less land invariably call for feeding algae sugar.