[AT] E85/Flex Fuel conversions

[Dean Vinson]

Henry Miller wrote:

> We can grow enough to replace oil IF we use algae (mostly biodiesel) 
> and cellulose, but both of those are just barely out of the lab

Henry, I haven't heard about the algae.  How does it work?  How might it be
produced and processed efficiently and sustainably enough to really replace
oil?

Those are my general concerns with all the bio approaches, although as with
the algae thing I haven't tried to really educate myself much.  But just
from long experience with any number of other things, I'm skeptical of ideas
that sound too good to be true.  What feeds the biological process over the
long term so the corn or algae or sugar cane or grass or whatever it is can
keep producing the required yield year after year?  How much oil is consumed
by all the various inputs in the course of preparing, feeding, harvesting,
processing, transporting, etc a gallon of the synthetic oil?

Dean Vinson
Dayton, Ohio
www.vinsonfarm.net