Wow, this is great! A month ago, I heard a lecture from poet Wendell Berry and a representative from Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, a community activist group. They also oppose, strongly, mountaintop removal. Neat talk.

Algae: Easily replace all Fossil Fuels: coal, oil, and nuclear. Get some Celebs on This!!!

Don’t let big business and the government stall this (the government slowed it in 1996). It would also REVERSE global warming. Conservation prevents future CO2. This reduces EXISTING CO2.

Algae instead of Corn for Bio-Fuel

Algae multiplies so quickly and produces so much oxygen per square foot that ponds with a total surface area five times the size of Colorado would be enough to start to reverse our growing CO2 problem. Corn nets approximately 81 gallons bio-diesel per acre. Soy nets 41 gallons per acre. Algae yields as high as 15,000 gallons per acre. Enough biodiesel to replace all petroleum transportation fuels could be grown in 15,000 square miles. That 15,000 square miles works out to roughly 9.5 million acres – far less than the 450 million acres currently used for crop farming in the US, and the over 500 million acres used as grazing land for farm animals. Algae triples in volume every day (unlike corn with 1 crop per year). Algae converts CO2 to O2; is 30% oil; and converts easily to Bio-Fuel. Conservation reduces present and future production of CO2. Algae reduces EXISTING CO2. The government needs to quit looking at corn and begin massive and wholesale funding and grants for algae. A new state agri-business of algae farms? Or grants for ocean farming? Algae, pond scum also a planet saver? Yes, if we take action!

Tami Freedman 423-894-1470 TamiFreedman@aol.com

And check my website: http://AlgaeToOil.tripod.com