Comments on: As Algae Summit Begins, San Diego Yearns to Make Houston Green With Envy http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2009/10/07/as-algae-summit-begins-san-diego-yearns-to-make-houston-green-with-envy/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:54:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: anonymous http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2009/10/07/as-algae-summit-begins-san-diego-yearns-to-make-houston-green-with-envy/comment-page-1/#comment-86029 anonymous Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:30:45 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=44935#comment-86029 Algae production would be scaled up much faster if the government stops giving millions of grant money to algae researchers at universities and more for algae production. We have spent over $2.2 billion in the last 35 years on algae research at university level and have nothing to show for it. ENOUGH WITH THE RESEARCH! We have researched algae to death in the US. "We need algae producers, not more research." All algae IP is worthless unless you have producers that can use it. Many algae producers are ready right now using "all off-the-shelf" existing proven "off-the-shelf" technologies to build out on hundreds and thousands of acres. WE NEED ALGAE PRODUCTION IN THE US NOW. Algae production would be scaled up much faster if the government stops giving millions of grant money to algae researchers at universities and more for algae production. We have spent over $2.2 billion in the last 35 years on algae research at university level and have nothing to show for it. ENOUGH WITH THE RESEARCH! We have researched algae to death in the US. “We need algae producers, not more research.” All algae IP is worthless unless you have producers that can use it.

Many algae producers are ready right now using “all off-the-shelf” existing proven “off-the-shelf” technologies to build out on hundreds and thousands of acres. WE NEED ALGAE PRODUCTION IN THE US NOW.

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