What About Algae Biofuel Hype « The Air Vent

The covering of several states for biofuel would help reduce the CO2 output. My actual feel for the numbers says 3 to 6 Arizona’s minimum today when all factors are figured in, to create enough biofuel to replace our vehicle usage. Currently the lack of numbers on actual production is astounding, yet the claims are tremendous. If someone really demonstrates a 4000 gallon per acre system people should consider creation of a small production installation for evaluation purposes but it doesn’t look very likely to me.

Also, if the costs cannot get to a level similar to current oil production costs, the biggest CO2 savings will be in the form of economic collapse. Something liberals seem to have no fear of.

I therefore do not believe that this biofuel nonsense has anything to do with science, it is currently political redirection by politicians. Support for implementation of any biofuel at this point is non-practical. Even the research should be kept to extremely low levels until some demonstration of actual results works. I pointed out on my other post super algae biodiesel that the results must consider whether energy is introduced into the system as food. This alters the energy balance and makes it seem as though we have improved over the actual numbers. If this is the case 15,000 gallons per acre is possible but at least 11,000 of those gallons are being created somewhere else!