BARD refuses to bow down to the laws of physics! BARD remains defiant! Well, it seems that there are enough potential algae investors who have not read my blog that money continues to flow to such ventures as a company that claims that they will produce 8,571,428 gallons of algae oil per acre annually, then [...]
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BARD Algae, Revisited
May 29, 2011
The Chronicle Profiles Your Humble Author
July 25, 2010
The San Francisco Chronicle published a nice profile of yours truly, written by Alice Chen. Read it if you’d like to know more about the author… BTW here are some more pictures from the article Best, Aaron
Algae Energy Analysis, or You Do The Math: The Clarens Paper
February 8, 2010
Instead of getting into algae economics right away, I am in this post responding to a current event of interest… The headline sure looks bad: “Engineers Find Significant Environmental Impacts With Algae-Based Biofuel.“ The New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, and Science Daily all join the hue and cry: “The U.Va. research, just [...]
Sub-Prime Algae Companies
January 12, 2010
One of the fastest ways to tell if a company is legit is to check their claims against basic laws of physics, chemistry, etc. In the algae world, a company’s predictions of how many gallons of biofuel they can generate per acre per year is a good place to start. Obviously, there’s a temptation to [...]
Post 1: The Algae Boom (Bubble?)
January 7, 2010
So, these days, even the average grocery clerk has heard the hooplah about algae biofuels and wants to know if this is really going to solve the end-of-oil problem. This is a very new phenomenon. When I first started working on algae biofuels in 2006, the Google filter I set up to find news about [...]
