Aaron-
Fine. But WHO is doing it other than a few TINY research outfits? NOBODY. And how well does something like that scale up? Can we AFFORD to cover our desert and scrub-lands with greenhouse tubes? These things take lots and lots of water, and lots and lots of MONEY to build and maintain, and there is STILL no guarantee that they will be able to scale up enough to fully supply our needs even at today’s demand, much less the increased demands of the future.
My main issue with bio-fuels is not whether they work. We know they work. My issue is whether they SCALE. Right now, they don’t.
Regardless, if we are going to move to bio-fuels, it must be something run by the market, NOT a mandate from on high. Our current mandate system is crippling our food production and driving prices for food AND fuel ever upwards. We need to drop the mandates, drop the subsides, and let the market work it out.
