GL: algae

[handy97885 at aol.com]

Even more interesting to me is that a real renewable source of
biodiesel is Algae and the studies done in the US have shown that we
could grow enough using a very small percentage of available farm
acres to completetly replace what we currently depend on in foreign
imports which I think I read is around 150 billion gallons annually.

Mike
M/V Muscavado


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I had seen/heard read that algae idea someplace also.
Howsome ever there seems to be a misunderstanding on just how to grow/harvest this stuff.
I would maintain that we have to allot ZERO farm acres.
?The stuff is ubiquitous. It appears on just about every body of water from here to Timbuktu (or at least the parts of Timbuktu that use fertilizers).
It's the bane of fishermen for it reacts/unites with oxygen in the water? thereby depriving the fish of same.
It lies atop farm ponds, inland lakes and some Great Lakes( not the Great Salt Lake) , 
golf course water hazards and even my back after a rain.
All that has to happen is to rake, scrape, coagulate, dry, mish, mosh, process, rehydrate and pour it into our tanks.
I am all for it.
Truly I am all for the USA becoming "energy independent" once again

Now on an educational side, to learn how we got to this state of affairs regarding oil, read Kevin Phillips'
' The American Theocracy ' or his new smaller ( fewer pages )? ' Bad Money '

Maybe once we stop sending trillions of dollars over to the oil producers, we just might have a few bucks available to PROPERLY DREDGE THE ICW FROM TEXAS TO MAINE. 
If I am gonna scratch/scrape my bottom, I'd prefer that it is mine --not my boat's.
John
Second Love