--- Robin > If I'm not mistaken (and I could well be), then the US actually consumes more fossil fuel to generate electricity than it does for transportation,
Yes but much of that consumption for electricity is provided by nuclear, hydro, wind, solar or in sites which cannot easily adapt to capturing CO2 for use in adjoining ponds. Plus night-time CO2 emission would be difficult to store. Therefore -- even if the US converted all of the well-sited coal and natural gas fired grid plants over to the production of algoil as a byproduct of the captured CO2, it would probably supply less than half of our transportation needs. It is true that a breakthrough in batteries (what happened to EEStor ??) would bring the situation into better balance by shifting more demand to the grid. Jones
