The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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a few of my co-workers and i were looking at this today. not really impressive when the numbers start getting crunched. Being extremely generous on the space usage they would generate about 200k bbs/sq mile/year. To meet even 10% of US annual oil consumption would require over 3000 sq miles of the algal units. That might actually not sound like much but it's not like the growth frames could be set out in fields like corn. Their per bbl cost estimates are unrealistically low.