Comments on: Wash U. and Danforth Center receive DOE funds for Algae Research http://blatantreality.com/2009/06/27/wash-u-and-danforth-center-receive-doe-funds-for-algae-research/ Highlighting Emerging Energy Technologies Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:44:50 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Durwood Dugger http://blatantreality.com/2009/06/27/wash-u-and-danforth-center-receive-doe-funds-for-algae-research/comment-page-1/#comment-9380 Durwood Dugger Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:27:20 +0000 http://blatantreality.com/2009/06/27/wash-u-and-danforth-center-receive-doe-funds-for-algae-research/#comment-9380 When you contact the researchers - ask how many economist are on the project. Ask to see how they arrived at attacking these two problem categories on an economic sensitivity basis. Apparently, their are no economist because they aren't attacking the problems by their economic sensitivity priorities. Oil yields are not a high priority hurdle in preventing economic feasibility. The costs associated with cellular oil extraction, separation/filtration, drying, and stabilizing the oils are. These groups primary purpose is to suck up more gov. grants and perhaps hit on something that will lead to a proprietary technology position for themselves. Examining the photo chemical processes of lipid production is pretty well understood. Accomplishing it economically is the hurdle. If developers are going to continue to ignore the economic hurdles in algae fuel production - they are going to continue to research low priority problems and the economic barriers are going to remain in place for commercial algae oil development. When you contact the researchers – ask how many economist are on the project. Ask to see how they arrived at attacking these two problem categories on an economic sensitivity basis. Apparently, their are no economist because they aren’t attacking the problems by their economic sensitivity priorities. Oil yields are not a high priority hurdle in preventing economic feasibility. The costs associated with cellular oil extraction, separation/filtration, drying, and stabilizing the oils are. These groups primary purpose is to suck up more gov. grants and perhaps hit on something that will lead to a proprietary technology position for themselves.

Examining the photo chemical processes of lipid production is pretty well understood. Accomplishing it economically is the hurdle. If developers are going to continue to ignore the economic hurdles in algae fuel production – they are going to continue to research low priority problems and the economic barriers are going to remain in place for commercial algae oil development.

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