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To: benwood who wrote (62851)	1/27/2007 6:19:59 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) of 116555

As to algae - they can be grown in segregated pounds and there is plenty of space / land available for this. There is already a company commercializing this type of Bio Mass. Agree with y if they grow in the Ocean and what y describe is a direct result of global warming and to much CO2. As to solar energy I meant thermo solar. Average power per sq meter in the subtropics is around 2KW in a clear day or averaging over 5,000Mj per year (including winter). Tropics is about 2.5 KW, there is plenty of empty space and lots of sunny days in Northern Mexico Baja California, New Mexico Sahara Dessert / Mauritania/ Algiers / West Sahara. The problem is storage and transmission of electricity to populate areas to which I do not have a cost estimate. Storage can be in heating high temp. resistant oils to over 400 C for later use in steam turbines or storing electricity in superconducting coils whatever is more cost effective Just imagine 1 square KM of collecting devices on 2 to 3 sq. Km of land can produce around 1,500 Mgwat of power at 60% efficiency same as the most modern power plants. The concept of parabolic solar mirrors and heating oil is a proven technology and works for years in California as back up for peak hours. Was not cost effective at $20 to $30 per barrel but is very cost effective now. Then is the seawaves energy which we did not found the proper techniques to extract the energy from. As to other bio mass use switch grass native to the US can produce gasoline substitutes at $1 per gallon at least triple the energy yield of corn per acre after refinement of the technology (micro-organisms like Zymomonas mobilis) the problem is that this is not to popular with farmers and does not bring in to many votes so US government does not heavily promote it. I can go on but this board is not the place for it

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