Biodiesel from Algae

Extracting biodiesel from algae just may be one of the most promising solutions to our nations energy crisis. Diesel engines using petroleum fossil fuels consume around 60 billion gallons of petroleum diesel per year according to statistics from the Department of Energy. While less energy efficient gasoline engines consume around 120 billion gallons of petroleum fossil fuels per year. Replacing that amount of consumption with soybean biodiesel production however, would not be possible for self-stainable purposes. With our nations current use of cropland, soy production would need to use a plot of land twice the size of our nation itself. The United States uses 450 million acres of land for producing crops at the moment, the majority of which is actually used to support the meat industry with animal feed. Another 580 million... [read full story]