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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
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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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