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Re: Seaweed
>From: William Bill Kovarik <wkovarik@RUACAD.AC.RUNET.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Seaweed
>agar, a medium for petri dish experiments. It grows in cultivation at
>very rapid rates, something like a ton per square meter per year, (Ill
>check exact figures if anyone likes).
>
>In an old scientific american I once came across an article about the
>Pasteur Institute using acid hydrolysis to get 10 gallons of alcohol
>for fuel per ton of seaweed.
>
>Using these figures, one could imagine a 100 square kilometer area producing
>one million gallons of alcohol for fuel per year, or an area the size of
Thats one _billion_ gallons, per 100 square kilometers per year.
>Argentina producing enough to replace the entire US supply of gasoline.
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk <rvanspaa@ozemail.com.au>
Re: Seaweed