{"id":1050,"date":"2009-05-04T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2009-05-04T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T06:17:00","slug":"algae-biofuels-economic-viability-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/algae-biofuels-economic-viability-by.html","title":{"rendered":"Algae Biofuels Economic Viability by Jeff H. Hassannia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>A very interesting article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarcongress.com\/2009\/04\/diversified-perspective-20090420.html\">Algae Biofuels Economic Viability<\/a> by Jeff H. Hassannia, Vice President, Business Development Diversified Energy Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>Key points are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Large-scale commercial algae ventures focused solely on biofuels will have a VERY difficult time overcoming capital and O&amp;M cost hurdles required of the marketplace for quite some time.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The government and private enterprise must continue to focus on R&amp;D to reduce costs and enhance yields. Comprehensive, logical, and focused R&amp;D needs to be put in place.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The industry (today) should focus on business models that grow algae for other high-value products, with biofuels production as a secondary product until the market fully matures.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>By the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. A very interesting article about Algae Biofuels Economic Viability by Jeff H. Hassannia, Vice President, Business Development Diversified Energy Corporation. Key points are: Large-scale commercial algae ventures focused solely on biofuels will have a VERY difficult time overcoming capital and O&amp;M cost hurdles required of the marketplace for quite some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-energy-cost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}