“…Early pronouncements that the potential for U.S. microalgae energy production could be 100 quads (Raymond, 1981) can be rejected as fanciful. Considerable work has been carried out by NREL on resource assessments, in particular of saline water, C02, and land, resources (Hill et al, 1984;Vigon et al, 198?, Feinberg and Karpuk, 1988;Maxwell et al, 1985, Lansford et al, 1990. Few of these studies ventured any specific predictions regarding resource base, although clearly these are relatively large, with multi-quad potential for algal fuel production.…”