We live at a crucial juncture in the history of mankind. Our past actions and inactions are fast catching up with us by turning our planet into a green house, our water bodies into dead zones and sending future generations in frantic search of new food and fuel resources. Our decisions now will affect their future in more profound ways than ever before. Do we have the humility to accept our past omissions and commissions and the audacity to take resolute and drastic new action to invite positive change?

Please check out our Algae to Fuel Project. It is carbon neutral, sustainable, non finite, and beneficial to water bodies. Type algae in Google news and you will see why this is both a great problem and a great opportunity. Either you grow the algae you desire or nature grows its own, which could be toxic and cause dead zones. Unlike other biofuels that threaten to raise food costs, algae can supplement our food sources and can be grown where crops cannot be. Algae are the fastest growing plant like life forms, in terms of biomass produced. Past efforts by the government (Aquatic Species Program) to make fuel from algae were abandoned in the 90's because of the low cost of crude oil, and the techno-economic difficulties in harvesting and extracting oil from algae. Now, new technologies, like hybrid algae cultures and continuous extraction, combined with advanced understanding of photobioreactor design, have renewed interest in this field. Rising costs of food and fuel, air and water pollution are circumstantial causes of this buzz in the green fuel arena.

Imagine making gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, nutraceuticals and health supplements like astaxanthin, lutein, icosapentanoic acid while removing CO2 from the air and while cleaning waste water. Process inputs such as CO2, nitrates, phosphates and sunlight are free and only power (to aerate, filter, and pump), algae culture, labor, and micro nutrients are some inputs that involve cost.