>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
>
> "The prospect of growing algae to make biodiesel has more positive
> potential than making ethanol from switchgrass, but you are still
> stuck with the fact that algae need solar energy to turn carbon
> dioxide into fuel. 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. The sugar ...
