You could also take a look at these:

http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/proceedings/01/carbon_seq/5a4.pdf
http://www.greenfuelonline.com/news/IECR.pdf

They're listed under "Resources" on the same Green Car Congress page.

Todd Swearingen


Kirk McLoren wrote:

> So where are these guys published? Such a cell line should be in the 
> literature.
>  
> Kirk
>
> */Appal Energy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
>
>     Southern Kaliforn-I-eh.
>
>     By December's end, 2007. Plant is or has already been contracted upon
>     and should be completed by then.
>
>     Don't think it's quite yet proper to say what firm is financing
>     it, at
>     least not until they issue their first press release, which they may
>     have already done for all I'm aware of.
>
>     The 100,000 gallons is just an estimate projected upon the reasonably
>     accepted value of 2,000 gpa from inoculated species in a
>     horizontal acre.
>
>     This plant will be growing vertically, permitting at least 50 x
>     production capability.
>
>     Will kinda' knock the socks off anything going. They'll just have
>     to get
>     the costs down to something affordable..., which will happen in
>     short order.
>
>     It's either that or biodiesel will be bottlenecked until hell freezes
>     over with a an economically sustainable level of oilseed production
>     (perhaps 5% at best of overall US demand) and consuming the vast
>     majority of WVO supplies.
>
>     It's the future or commercial biodiesel is plumb (horse droppings)
>     out
>     of luck.
>
>     Todd Swearingen
>
>
>     Keith Addison wrote:
>
>     >>And/or 100,000 gallons of oil per acre when growing algae.
>     >>
>     >>Todd Swearingen
>     >>\
>     >>
>     >>
>     >
>     >Um, where exactly are these acres of algae each producing 100,000
>     >gallons of oil? Anywhere here on Planet Earth in August 2006?
>     >
>     >:-)
>     >
>     >Keith
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >>Kirk McLoren wrote:
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>>1000 gallons methanol per acre with hemp if using pyrolytic
>     distillation.
>     >>>
>     >>>Kirk
>     >>>
>     >>>*/Jason& Katie /* wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>> WHAT!?!?!?!?!?
>     >>>
>     >>> > Could we replace all our oil with bio-fuels? Well... maybe. But
>     >>> it would
>     >>> > be an extraordinary effort. A fifty-fifty mix of bio-diesel and
>     >>> ethanol
>     >>> > would require putting three times the productive farm land in
>     >>> >Iowa toward
>     >>> > nothing but the production of fuel just to match what we
>     >>> currently import.
>     >>> > Make it five Iowas to solve the whole problem. Trouble is, that
>     >>> much farm
>     >>> > land is not readily available. There's also >the little nit of
>     >>> figuring
>     >>> > out what we eat while every scrap of land is busy working for
>     >>> our gas
>     >>> > tanks.
>     >>> > Naturally, if we combine bio-fuels with the two hoped for goals
>     >>> in regular
>     >>> > cars -- more efficient engines and lighter weight vehicles -- we
>     >>> can
>     >>> > shrink the requisite greenspace. Brazil, which generates
>     >>> >ethanol from
>     >>> > sugar cane, has been systematically raising the amount of
>     >>> ethanol in their
>     >>> > fuel supply, and Brazilian manufacturers have been adding small
>     >>> flex-fuel
>     >>> > vehicles that can run on anything from E0 to >E100. Zap is
>     >>> bringing at
>     >>> > least one of these vehicles to US consumers next year.
>     >>>
>     >>> im all for the efficiency argument, but COME ON PEOPLE! doesnt
>     anyone
>     >>> believe in using something OTHER than corn and soy? they are NOT
>     >>> the best
>     >>> feedstocks anyone could use for fuel! move to a better supply, not
>     >>> a higher
>     >>> yield. this is ridiculous! if the supply was a high density stock
>     >>> the land
>     >>> requirement would be porportionally lower.
>     >>>
>     >>> for diesel replacement assume we used castor in the USA:
>     >>> -oil yield would be roughly 151 gallons per acre compared to 48
>     >>> gallons of soy oil.
>     >>> -THEREFORE one acre of castor would eliminate the need for more
>     >>> than 3 acres of soy.
>     >>> which means those other 2 acres of new empty field could be
>     >>> used for food or- OH NO! TREES!
>     >>>
>     >>> for gasoline replacement assume we use sugarbeets (not very good,
>     >>> but more
>     >>> climate friendly) in the USA:
>     >>> -ethanol yield would be 412 gallons per acre compared to 214
>     gallons
>     >>> of corn ethanol
>     >>> -THEREFORE one acre of sugarbeets would eliminate the need for
>     >>> 1.9 acres of corn.
>     >>> you see where im going with this?
>     >>>
>     >>> by selective breeding of some of the more tropical varieties of
>     >>> high density
>     >>> stock, we can slowly push the growing regions further north,
>     >>> increasing the
>     >>> supply density, and lowering the acreage needed to supply the same
>     >>> amount.
>     >>> WE DONT NEED CORN OR SOY FOR FUEL! i might be raving like an
>     >>> idiot, but
>     >>> noone can seem to understand that corn and soy are not the only
>     >>> crops in the
>     >>> world.
>     >>>
>     >>> Jason
>     >>> ICQ#: 154998177
>     >>> MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >
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