Re: Bio-Based Fuels (OT: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-02-27 06:08:47, schrieb Andy Smith: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:42:22PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Sorry, for the "Off-Topic" ness of this post. I guess we are being > > admonished for far too much of this. > > It's interesting that in the relatively few wildly off-topic threads > tha

Re: Bio-Based Fuels (OT: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-03-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 22:42 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 17:38 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Algae based Bio-Diesel. 110,000 square miles of "useless desert" flooded > > with salt water and seeded with a certain algae > > Oops, just went through the TOME summary, its 11,000

Re: Bio-Based Fuels (OT: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-02-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 06:08 +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:42:22PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Sorry, for the "Off-Topic" ness of this post. I guess we are being > > admonished for far too much of this. > > It's interesting that in the relatively few wildly off-topic thre

Re: Bio-Based Fuels (OT: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-02-26 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:42:22PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > Sorry, for the "Off-Topic" ness of this post. I guess we are being > admonished for far too much of this. It's interesting that in the relatively few wildly off-topic threads that constitute a large proportion of the mails to this lis

Re: Bio-Based Fuels (OT: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 21:42, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 17:38 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: >> Algae based Bio-Diesel. 110,000 square miles of "useless desert" flooded >> with salt water and seeded with a certain algae > > Oops, just went through

Re: Bio-Based Fuels (OT: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-02-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 17:38 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > Algae based Bio-Diesel. 110,000 square miles of "useless desert" flooded > with salt water and seeded with a certain algae Oops, just went through the TOME summary, its 11,000 square miles. Or about: 0.310959514% of the 3,537,438 sq

Re: Bio-Based Fuels (OT: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-02-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 18:08 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/26/07 16:38, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 16:22 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] > > > > Algae based Bio-Diesel. 110,000 square miles of "useless desert" flooded > > with salt water and seeded with a certain algae...

Re: Bio-Based Fuels (OT: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 16:38, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 16:22 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > > Algae based Bio-Diesel. 110,000 square miles of "useless desert" flooded > with salt water and seeded with a certain algae... would supply enough

Re: Bio-Based Fuels (OT: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-02-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 05:38:49PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 16:22 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Bio-fuels *are* a great idea. > > > > Until you realize *how much* gasoline & diesel this country uses > > (then add 3x more to that for the rest of the world), and the fact >

Re: Bio-Based Fuels (OT: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-02-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 16:22 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Bio-fuels *are* a great idea. > > Until you realize *how much* gasoline & diesel this country uses > (then add 3x more to that for the rest of the world), and the fact > that stuff like corn ethanol needs lots of (*petrolem* based) > fertiliz