WE NEED A FORM OF RENEWABLE ENERGY THAT DOES NOT STARVE PEOPLE...
The Cost of Corn Ethanol [4]
Starving the People To Feed the Cars [5]
This seems to be one of the only forms that doesn't take food off people's plates.
Wired [6] reports, "Biodiesel fueling stations are sprouting like weeds across America, where production of the alternative fuel rose 66 percent in 2003." The Physics Department at the University of New Hampshire [7] has an article on "Widescale biodiesel production from algae [8]." "With alternate fuel becoming a fairly hot trend in recent months, some academics may have applied their theoretical know-how to give us a practical solution. They offer up the idea that certain types of algae are well-suited to biodiesel production as they are nearly 50 percent oil."
"The article speculates that large pools could be created to farm out biodiesel from algae in areas near waste streams and salt water. They postulate that to replace our fossil fuel usage it would take only a total of a little over ten thousand square miles, which could fit in an area like the Sonora Desert."
Here's some general information from Wikipedia definition and history [9].
Renewable fuel that can be manufactured from vegetable oils, animal fats, or recycled restaurant greases. Biodiesel is safe, biodegradable, and reduces serious air pollutants such as particulates, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and air toxics.
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