# Live Green, Go Yellow **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [February 13, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/live-green-go-yellow/8141 "2006-02-13T22:26:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![double\_j](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/double_j/32/7380_2.png) [@double\_j](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/double_j)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/live-green-go-yellow/8141/61 "2008-07-02T21:34:58Z")
I like how this thread was brought back to life. What have we learned in the past couple years of ethanol production? Biofuels are no damn good if you use a food crop, or grow the source of the biofuel in a place where food has been recently grown. Read: [http://www.mediastudy.com/articles/av5-8-08.html](http://www.mediastudy.com/articles/av5-8-08.html) So how about a source of biofuel that we can grow in places where we don’t grow anything that we eat? Desert? But how? > **[Biodiesel from Algae is Here!](http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2005/06/university_of_n.html)** > > This possibility of attaining self sufficiency in liquid fuels, as envisioned by Michael Briggs of the University of New Hampshire Biodiesel Group, has been brought a giant step foreword by the developments of GreenFuels Technology Corporation of... What do you need to grow algae? Sun and water. There is plenty of sun in the desert. Fill 'em with clear tubes to grow algae! The only problem I foresee is the demand for water going up drastically. I don’t know what else to say. ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/live-green-go-yellow/8141/62 "2008-07-02T21:51:09Z")
> [@The\_Russian](#): > > what is with your necro posts today he’s trying to self ban. and well on his way. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/live-green-go-yellow/8141.md?page=3)