[decimon]

Coal bug ping

[decimon]

I should have indicated that the excerpt does not address the title.

[varmintman]

When you look at it the right way...

You'd be talking about a small part of our desert territory in Nevada and Arizona, deserts are the optimal area for this sort of farming. We should be able to stop importing oil in a year or two.

[Erik Latranyi]

Now, if they could grow the algae in seawater........

[PA Engineer]

Biofuels technologies appear capable of someday producing 200,000 barrels of jet fuel a day—enough to supply the needs of the U.S. Air Force—from algae grown on less than 800,000 acres.

1250 square miles? Yeah that is practical. [/sarcasm]

[ArchAngel1983]

Does anyone honestly believe that the American socialists, communists and democrats will let this country become energy independent? Not on your life! Where would be the crisis to not waste in that?

[Brilliant]

Converting coal to methane is sort of like converting gold to lead.