"To replace current U.S. petroleum use alone would require about 75% of all cultivated land on the face of the Earth, with no ethanol available for other countries, or sufficient food and water for humans and animals."
- Pimentel, D.; T.W. Patzek (2005). "Ethanol Production Using Corn, Switchgrass, and Wood; Biodiesel Production Using Soybean and [...]
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when all the cooking oil is used up. The supply of U.S. cooking oil isn’t as big as our petroleum supplies. Our agriculture system can’t keep up with it either. Remember how the cost of food went up when we converted part of our corn crops to ethanol production? It will happen with the cooking [...]
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Bryan Garner, News Channel 5 visits a farm in Fellsmere that produces algae which replaces crude oil. Fred Tennant (Vice President of Petroalgae) says it is cheaper than oil, a lot cheaper. Arizona State developed this Algae and or process. Bits of algae fed with carbon dioxide grow dark green. From seed to harvest in [...]
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