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Jatropha is the old school way of making renewable fuels.......this is the new way Algae fuel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The United States Department of Energy estimates that if algae fuel replaced all the petroleum fuel in the United States, it would require 15,000 square miles (40,000 square kilometers), which is a few thousand square miles larger than Maryland, or 1.3 Belgiums.This is less than 1/7th the area of corn harvested in the United States in 2000.
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