Biofuels in Transportation: A World Prospectus
by John Laumer, Philadelphia 
on 06.13.06
Worldwatch Institute and it's partner organizations have just published the epic: “Biofuels for Transportation: Global Potential and Implications for Sustainable Agriculture and Energy in the 21st Century” TreeHugger is pleased to promote this seminal work for several reasons. The study is circumspect and forward-looking. It sets a baseline for understanding choices for public policy development and private investment. And, joint sponsorship by a consortium makes it harder to spin. Finally, it gives those of you who love to comment on this stuff (you know who you are) a chance to be as happy as kids at a party for awhile. So without further ado, click down and have a look at some cool graphs and then download the extended report summary from Worldwatch. You’ll be glad you did.
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Thanks for the great work!!
The biodiesel chart above is missing what is by far the highest yielding feedstock: algae. Valcent claims that its test bed facility is producing oil at the rate of 4000 barrels per acre-year (second link below).
http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html
http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2006/10/vertigro_algae_.html
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Besides offering higher yield potential, taking up C02, and using human wastewater as a nutrient source, algal oil cultivation is easily "industrialized". That said, there are no pre-commercial ventures yet and bench scale projections such as this will be imprecise. Fingers crossed.