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Yeah - the bus needs to be monitored, but I'm all for these experiments.
I also agree about hot rocks - likely everywhere - ubiqitous power eventually if it can be made to work. I look forward to people one day howling about the damage cause by people having too much energy :-).
First generation biofuels suck - the sooner they all disappear, the better.
I find it hard to see how any biofuel produced in the temperate zone can compete with those produced from tropical plants.
You get so much more sunlight (and often water too) per hectare, you'd think jatropha and sugar cane would leave switchgrass and corn for dead.
Which introduces the danger that a lot of tropical forests will be cleared for biofuel production.
Even if you come up with improved GM varieties with higher yields, wouldn't the tropical GM plants be better still?