alt.energy.renewable

What I don't understand is why people keep talking about building
ponds in the desert. Why? Another pork barrel project? We can and
should use Alga for engery. However, when are we going to get though
our thick heads we need to work wiht nature not against it? Working
against nature on the scale needed for energy independance would be
costly and will only retard our efforts. We have plenty of lakes, and
just as many or more Bays that can partly or wholely enclosed. The
mouths of rivers contain Millions of years worth of silt deposits that
can be dreged up and used as nutirents for alga. Rivers themselfs can
be used as nutient streems by simply channeling portions of the flow
as it spills into the sea and diluting them gradually over a large
area. The nesseary area and them some is easily avaialble along our
cost lines with In many places with little modification.