Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Excalibur: Mighty Claims, Mighty Prizes, and the problem of myth in bioenergy

Biofuels Digest
Jim Lane March 22, 2011

There are no shortage of reasons why high-yield biofuels, particularly microalgae, continue to fascinate practically everyone in the pursuit of alternative energy. Carbon fixation, water remediation, and local economic opportunity are among the many offered fruits.

But those exotic yields, and associated low costs of production, are the magnetic attractors of attention, drawing us towards companies and their claims like trumpets calling hounds to the hunt.

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