Comments on: All Green on the Western Front: San Diego Algae Pioneers Provide Glimpse of the Future of Biofuels http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2009/08/27/all-green-on-the-western-front-san-diego-algae-pioneers-provide-glimpse-of-the-future-of-biofuels/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:14:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: algaepreneur http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2009/08/27/all-green-on-the-western-front-san-diego-algae-pioneers-provide-glimpse-of-the-future-of-biofuels/comment-page-1/#comment-79195 algaepreneur Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:01:37 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=39209#comment-79195 Algae is renewable, does not affect the food channel and consumes CO2. To learn more about the fast-track commercialization of the algae industry, you may want to check out the National Algae Association. It is the first algae trade association. It is made up of collaborating algae production companies, algae researchers and investors. Algae is renewable, does not affect the food channel and consumes CO2. To learn more about the fast-track commercialization of the algae industry, you may want to check out the National Algae Association. It is the first algae trade association. It is made up of collaborating algae production companies, algae researchers and investors.

]]> By: Glenn Mosier http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2009/08/27/all-green-on-the-western-front-san-diego-algae-pioneers-provide-glimpse-of-the-future-of-biofuels/comment-page-1/#comment-78796 Glenn Mosier Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:30:18 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=39209#comment-78796 Insightful article. The Department of Defense has a dual goal for funding algae biofuel research. They share the same economic motivation as all other huge consumers of energy. To that end the hurdle to be met is the price of oil in the future, a daunting task. The DOD's strategic motivations for new energy technologies are not benchmarked against value of oil, but rather against a matrix of objectives including logistics, security and even the value of human life. For those reasons, the DOD may likely continue to fund research which the private sector could not justify. The focus will be on San Diego when The 3rd Annual Algae Biomass Summit comes to town on October 7th through the 9th. Insightful article. The Department of Defense has a dual goal for funding algae biofuel research. They share the same economic motivation as all other huge consumers of energy. To that end the hurdle to be met is the price of oil in the future, a daunting task. The DOD’s strategic motivations for new energy technologies are not benchmarked against value of oil, but rather against a matrix of objectives including logistics, security and even the value of human life. For those reasons, the DOD may likely continue to fund research which the private sector could not justify.

The focus will be on San Diego when The 3rd Annual Algae Biomass Summit comes to town on October 7th through the 9th.

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