[Red Badger]

There are much better yields from other algae diesel technologies, in the order of 10-15k gallons per acre per year, and that's just to start......

[wacko rightwinger]

So the production equipment costs $60k for an acre, and by their estimates an acre could produce about 6,000 gallons of diesel per year. That is $10/gallon for a year, or $1/gallon even spread over 10 years. That is just the cost of the reactor. Add in maintenance, overhead, labor, transportation, and there is no way, even over 20 years that it could cost-efficient.

[taxcontrol]

I had not heard of those. Do you have any references you can point me to? 15 to 16 thousand per year per acre would make the technology almost efficient enough to start to replace gasoline production... assuming a 40 mpg plus diesel vehicle was the standard.

It might even be possible to go back and revisit some of the steam car, external combustion engines to boost the mpg even further.