Today in Biofuels Opinion: (Algae)

Biofuels Digest
February 25, 2010

“The problem with algae is that it is simply not as far along in terms of the biology and engineered systems.”

Ron Pate, Sandia National Labs: “The DOE has not officially laid out an explicit timeline for algae biofuels commercialization, and I don’t know that they ever will. I have suggested in this and past presentations that getting algae biofuels to the point of commercial viability could take another decade, depending on how things progress over the next few years, but that is not an official DOE position. This is best described as my own personal observation, subject to revision as things progress.

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