[Wonder Warthog]

"Cover the entire southwestern desert with algae ponds....it might make a dent in the supply."

Process doesn't use algae and is far more efficient than algal approaches. The necessary land is a minute fraction of the "southwestern desert".

[count-your-change]

A salt water algae is still algae even if it’s called a “highly engineered photosensitive organism in non-freshwater solution”.

and the promise of about 9 1/2 millions gal. per year per square mile.....right.