Quote Originally Posted by dragonrider
I'm an algae rancher runnin' 100 billion head of free-range sprulinas in a pond out back. It's a great life, and there's nothing like takin' 'em to market on one of the great long-distance algae drives. "Yah! Get along little algaes!"
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rollin rolling rolling ... keep those prankton flowing :stoned: the seaweed life is the life for me. (sorry :rastasmoke: )


here a blurb from wiki

Algae fuel, also called algal fuel, oilgae[1] or third generation biofuel, is a biofuel from algae. Compared with second generation biofuels, algae are high-yield high-cost (30 times more energy per acre than terrestrial crops) feedstocks to produce biofuels. Since the whole organism converts sunlight into oil, algae can produce more oil in an area the size of a two-car garage than an entire football field of soybeans.[2]

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The United States Department of Energy estimates that if algae fuel replaced all the petroleum fuel in the United States, it would require 15,000 square miles (40,000 square kilometers), which is a few thousand square miles larger than Maryland, or 1.3 Belgiums.[3] This is less than 1/7th the area of corn harvested in the United States in 2000.[10][11]

In the 2008 U.S. Department of Energy Biomass and Biofuels Update to Congress (by the Office of Biomass Program)[12] appears the move to algae fuels.[13]