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...

On Feb 28, 3:26 am, knews4u2c...@yahoo.com wrote:

JW, didn't to previously post that the Meyer Cell was some sort of a
capacitor, using water as its dielectric? Then too, perhaps I am
mistaken and that bit of silliness was posted by someone else.

I assume that you do realize that "tap water" contains disolved salts
plus minerals, hence conducts electricity. It is an electrolyte, not
a dielectric.

The resistivity of good quality distilled water, by contrast, is
measured in the megohms, and can to an extent act as a somewhat leaky
dielectric.
This is precistly why only distilled water is used for the water
cooling of some high power, high voltage electonics devices such as
large transmitter tubes -- simply so that high voltage is not
conducted through the cooling water.