Comments on: Algae Biofuels – The Hype, the Hope, the Promise http://www.globalwarmingisreal.com/blog/2009/03/26/algae-biofuels-the-hype-the-hope-the-promise/ News, Resources, and Commentary on Climate Change, Energy, and Sustainability Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:10:29 -0800 hourly 1 By: Thomas Schueneman http://www.globalwarmingisreal.com/blog/2009/03/26/algae-biofuels-the-hype-the-hope-the-promise/#comment-10559 Thomas Schueneman Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:42:10 +0000 http://www.globalwarmingisreal.com/blog/?p=2261#comment-10559 Hi Ross, You make some excellent points, thanks for the comment. I hope your predictions are correct! Hi Ross,

You make some excellent points, thanks for the comment. I hope your predictions are correct!

]]> By: Ross Youngs http://www.globalwarmingisreal.com/blog/2009/03/26/algae-biofuels-the-hype-the-hope-the-promise/#comment-10539 Ross Youngs Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:00:53 +0000 http://www.globalwarmingisreal.com/blog/?p=2261#comment-10539 There is much promise in a field paved by people who were underfunded, underappreciated, in the wrong place at the wrong time. They will all admit it can be done in the lab, which is all that needs to be said. Take any developing field and look back 15 years and you will find achievement of the impossible; the rarity is to predict specifics moving forward. In 1956 you could have asked the 100 top scientists or scientific organizations worldwide to predict what prerecorded audio technology would be like in 1986 and none would have predicted an integrated circuit with a laser diode to read 8 billion pits molded into a clear plastic disc. The gas laser was not invented until 1959 nor was the IC. Give up hope if you want, but anyone experienced in technology development knows algae is a once every 50 year boom waiting to explode with opportunity. My prediction is that algae as a centerpiece of a bio-economy will deliver more economic activity then the computer did in its first 50 years of commercial availability, because algae will be used as fuels, plastics, foods, feeds, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, and other advanced materials or chemicals. Also do not forget our population is expected to increase another 3 billion people in 40 years while other non-renewable resources dwindle. We must succeed and we will. There is much promise in a field paved by people who were underfunded, underappreciated, in the wrong place at the wrong time. They will all admit it can be done in the lab, which is all that needs to be said.

Take any developing field and look back 15 years and you will find achievement of the impossible; the rarity is to predict specifics moving forward. In 1956 you could have asked the 100 top scientists or scientific organizations worldwide to predict what prerecorded audio technology would be like in 1986 and none would have predicted an integrated circuit with a laser diode to read 8 billion pits molded into a clear plastic disc. The gas laser was not invented until 1959 nor was the IC. Give up hope if you want, but anyone experienced in technology development knows algae is a once every 50 year boom waiting to explode with opportunity.

My prediction is that algae as a centerpiece of a bio-economy will deliver more economic activity then the computer did in its first 50 years of commercial availability, because algae will be used as fuels, plastics, foods, feeds, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, and other advanced materials or chemicals. Also do not forget our population is expected to increase another 3 billion people in 40 years while other non-renewable resources dwindle. We must succeed and we will.

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