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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> >Don't know what that translates into in terms of diesel gallons produced.  
> Interesting stuff. 
> 

Nor I,  If one does a Google on PetroSun's algae biodiesel, one gets 
thousands of hits covering the announcement that they opened the algae 
operation for 
production in 2008.  Algae grows mainly in warm weather, so 2008 has now come 
and gone.

Try to find information on how much biodiesel they actually produced ... and 
more importantly, how much fossil fuel it took to grow and process it.  
Thousands of hits about the announcement last spring, no news, not even any 
hype, on 
how much they actually produced and what the energy advantage was.

So far almost all of the alternate energy endeavors have been 'energy busy 
work', using X btu's of fossil fuel to make X btu's of some alternative, or 
more 
often 90% of X btu's.  The actual fuel being consumed is venture capital and 
government grants.


James