One of my friends is working with a rapeseed variety that can grow in the plains of eastern colorado without irrigation -- many of the farmers out there own more land than they can grow wheat on with the limited acquifer draws they are allowed. So, why not grow rapeseed on the rest of it without irrigation, for biodiesel fuelstock. Many of them also use near 15,000 gallons of diesel fuel per year to pump the water from the ground -- some of which could be supplanted by on-site produced biodiesel, or better yet, windpower (commercial wind farms are big out there too).
Compare that with the energy company that I may soon be working for (doing solar energy). One of their other divisions has just started a new biodiesel plant in Galvaston, Texas. Importing palm oil from southeast asia, turn it to biodiesel, and sell it to Europe. Hmmmm. I think they might have missed the point..... Z
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