Now, this annual problem is getting new attention, not from marine scientists but from entrepreneurs looking for a new domestic source of fuel. And one start-up sees fish themselves being part of the process.

The algae blooms are spawned each year as the farmland runoff from as far away as Montana flows into rivers, eventually reaching the Mississippi and flowing into Louisiana bayous and out into the Gulf of Mexico.

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The future of renewable energy is anaerobic manure digestion? That statement sounds like a bunch of BS (sorry, had to), but according to utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PCG) and BioEnergy Solutions, it’s anything but.

Soon California will be lighting and heating its homes with power derived from cow dung. Yesterday PG&E and BioEnergy Solutions announced the Vintage Dairy Biogas Project, which will see BioEnergy Solutions passing gas (again, sorry) generated at its manure-to-gas facility (see photo above) in Fresno, Calif., to PG&E’s power plants.

The companies hope the effort will produce enough cow dung biogas to power 1,200 homes a day. That may sound like a cow-pie-in-the-sky aspiration (enough already, I know, I know), but BioEnergy Solutions founder David Albers thinks it’s a reasonable goal. “When most people see a pile of manure, they see a pile of manure,” he said. “We saw it as an opportunity for farmers, for utilities and for California.”

No word yet on how the project will impact global warming. Cow flatulence is over 200 times more potent than carbon dioxide in terms of absorbing the infrared radiation that contributes significantly to global warming.

The future of renewable energy is anaerobic manure digestion? That statement sounds like a bunch of BS (sorry, had to), but according to utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PCG) and BioEnergy Solutions, it’s anything but.

Soon California will be lighting and heating its homes with power derived from cow dung. Yesterday PG&E and BioEnergy Solutions announced the Vintage Dairy Biogas Project, which will see BioEnergy Solutions passing gas (again, sorry) generated at its manure-to-gas facility (see photo above) in Fresno, Calif., to PG&E’s power plants.

The companies hope the effort will produce enough cow dung biogas to power 1,200 homes a day. That may sound like a cow-pie-in-the-sky aspiration (enough already, I know, I know), but BioEnergy Solutions founder David Albers thinks it’s a reasonable goal. “When most people see a pile of manure, they see a pile of manure,” he said. “We saw it as an opportunity for farmers, for utilities and for California.”

No word yet on how the project will impact global warming. Cow flatulence is over 200 times more potent than carbon dioxide in terms of absorbing the infrared radiation that contributes significantly to global warming.

Yesterday brought news that Om Malik was going all Al Gore on us with his new Earth2Tech, a blog site “devoted to the business of clean technologies, its innovations and everything else.”

We like what we have read so far (avoid soy biodiesel IPOs, as if they were Pets.com reincarnated–DONE!) and it looks great (nice digital leaf).

Not to be outdone, we made acquaintance with writer Charles Runnette and his veggie Mercedes, whilst on a run to the most excellent Baby Blue Bar-B-Q in Venice, Calif., last night (which was deliciously oily, too).

The car, which has been converted to run on vegetable oil by Lovecraft Bio-Fuels, a popular company that converts diesel cars in the shaggy Silver Lake area of Los Angeles.

I once visited an even shaggier commune right next door to Lovecraft and can still recall the pungent Thai food smell that perpetually wafted out of the place, as its workers toiled at making the world gasoline-free. Mighty tasty, too!

Here’s my video: