Check out the price for algae in the health food store. It's $25/lb. Thus diesel will never be made from algae even if they get it down to say $5/lb for non food grade algae
Algae to diesel is a pure waste of time. Who funds this crap?
"Check out the price for algae in the health food store. It's $25/lb. Thus diesel will never be made from algae even if they get it down to say $5/lb for non food grade algae
Algae to diesel is a pure waste of time. Who funds this crap?"
Dennis, you are forgetting the economie of scale. The algea in your health food store is from limited sources and supply is limited mostly because of a lack of demand.
IF this technology works and they overcome the issues outlined in the article, then the volume of production will increase and the price will fall.
Or don't you believe in the fundamentals of supply & demand?
So what if they will be funded to over come the difficulties and start-up costs. Big Oil got vast tax breaks on upgrading their refineries to produce Ultra Low Sulphur fuels 10 years later than Europe, and that's why you can't buy diesels in several key states (there is no way high sulphur diesel will pass the emmissions test).