Green Ideas

Fossil fuel acquisition, production and consumption are all quite dangerous to our environment.  In recent years Bio-Fuels have gained popularity, but have also created competing demands with food resourcing.  The price of corn increased as the demand for Bio-Fuels from processing corn gained greater popularity.  Also the energy gained from Bio-Fuel via corn was not that beneficial from both a financial and environmental perspective.  Corn based Bio-Fuel production was more-or-less a knee jerk reaction by the oil companies to show the public that they were doing something to solve the environmental as well as political issues attached to fossil fuels.  This is where Algae has proven to be a better solution.  An acre of production can produce up to 30 times the energy as compared with other biofuel produced from crops.  Also the hazard posed from an accidental spill from algae would be minor.  The US department of energy has estimated that 15,000 square miles would be required to produce enough fuel from algae to replace petroleum fuel used in the US.  Arizona and New Mexico, perfect environments for Algae Bio-Fuel production could easily handle the task.  Looks like we could have a solution.  Let's hope President Obama is paying attention to this solution and Hopefully Oil companies are buying up the cheap land in Arizona to start setting up shop to produce Algae.

ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae_fuel