In reply to Jones Beene's message of Fri, 7 Jul 2006 07:12:56 -0700: Hi, [snip] >Doing a rough calculation of the area of the Algae bloom, it works >out to about 10 thousand square miles. There are 640 acres per >mi^2 so this over 6 million acres of intense algae in perpetual >year-round bloom. Even using the most conservative figure of 5000 >gallons/acre that should produce over 30 billion gallons yearly, >and perhaps 60 billion due to the prime location.
...which works out to about 10-20% of US consumption (if memory serves correctly). Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
