Most Golf Courses Have Water Features - Should They Be Growing Algae For Fuel?

Due to the decline in economic activity many golf course have watched their users decline, and fewer and fewer middle class Americans are partaking in golf travel or an expensive round of golf locally. Indeed, I happen to live in an International City, a golfing community setting and in the valley here there are over 150 golf course, a few recently have called it quits and filed bankruptcy. In some instances they have leased the golf course out to share-croppers for farming, and in other cases they have let the whole thing go, and it is returning to the natural landscaping, weeds and sage brush.

Now then, it is also noted that most golf courses have an abundance of water features which means these small ponds, and lakes could be used to grow algae, which could then be harvested, dried, and refined into fuel. That's right fuel, algae fuel which could be used for a number of industries. Even aviation is trying its hand at algae fuel. So, if the Jet-Set who likes to proclaim themselves environmentalists, well, maybe they can put some algae fuel in that there corporate jet of theirs - Al Gore for instance when he flies out to play golf.

How much would it cost to concert a golf course pond water feature into an energy fuel producing algae growing mechanism? Not much, and as long as the folks doing the work used proper care when traveling across the grass to get to it, there wouldn't be any downside to this either. Indeed, perhaps it is time for those golf courses which are nearly bankrupt to consider this concept to help them stay in business and out of the red ink? Think on this.