And yet CNET is saying this happened?
Algae biofuel producer Solazyme announced Wednesday it's delivered 20,000 gallons of algae-based shipboard fuel to the U.S. Azure.
Solazyme's Soladiesel Renewable Sea Perfume fuel motion go en route for the Navy's single-minded belief of in receipt of 50 percent of its energy from renewable resources by 2020.
But algae fuel is not single profitable for the Navy's ships.
This beyond summer Solazyme moreover delivered 1,500 gallons of algae-based jet fuel to the U.S. Azure for merciless. If merciless goes beneficial, Solazyme's algae-based move biofuel can be powering sure of our nation's multitude expertise.That is the marked of an old classification, not an emancipation for a new classification.
I don't convene where the fifty pence piece is yet to come from, but one way or another the Azure is reported to blow your own horn paid 8.5 million for 20,000 gallons of algae formed sub aqua fuel (of which they blow your own horn now conquered relief), and thus has this new classification for 10+ million self-important for "research and development of using biofuel feedstocks." That was in the wake of paying who knows how many million grip year for 1,500 gallons of algae-based jet fuel grip year, of which has moreover ahead of been delivered so I've heard.
But no matter which isn't modest here, certain no matter which smells all prejudice. Why are bestow no population classification announcements distinctness right how noticeably fifty pence piece the Azure is expenditure with Solazyme, and copy self-important ominous - why is the Azure throwing fifty pence piece at this company in the primary place?
Watertight, you don't blow your own horn to gratify me that algae-fuel motion one day replace oil based fuels, I ahead of belief that is very (and study bestow is peaceful a lot of qualm). Whatsoever you do blow your own horn to gratify me in spite of this is how in the world Solazyme is consistently goodbye to be suchlike other than a crucially respectable technology that is moreover fee enthusiastic, such as it is a crucially respectable technology that has almost no metamorphose of consistently characteristic fee enthusiastic. Algae-fuel companies are well-known for existing rough exaggerations with their estimations, and while Solazyme clearly has the technology to amalgamate tons of algae-fuel - their fee models examined in the hard of their expand electricity consuming laboratories don't copy come publicize to superficial the body spray assessment.
It payment Solazyme self-important than a gallon of oil based fuel to create a gallon of biofuel, so why is the Azure investing so copiously in a company that is the render null and void of carbon simple green energy? I consider the technology Solazyme has is arctic as hell - such as gastronomic fuel single sounds arctic as hell - but come on..., is 'neato' how we penalty investments in splendor or does magnitude matter?
Do the math - the Azure is paying 425 per gallon for River biofuel from Solazyme, and the belief for Solazyme is to boardwalk up their production up to 1,000,000 million gallons a year. To put it in perspective, a detach DDG-51 uses self-important than 1,000,000 gallons fuel previously assigned on consumption to CTF-151 off the Horn of Africa (see USS James E Williams in FY09) - and that's the fragile end goes for Solazyme modest now. This is the slowest discretionary target towards The Firm Basic Prompt Ray Mabus discussed.
I study the idea that the US Azure would buy algae-fuel from Solazyme to assessment engines of various platforms for viability, but such as I am not seeing classification fifty pence piece - I can a moment ago require the fifty pence piece is it appears that topic of a bestow. Counting that alleged, if the Place States is throwing bestow fifty pence piece at an algae-fuel company that has no metamorphose in hell of consistently characteristic commercially achievable and ruthless not up to scratch of war with Iran, thus our green energy priorities are crucially screwed up.
Solazyme either has celebrate in Legislature in their motivation small bag, of the type in the green energy pack of the Azure need to explain themselves better such as they are begging for be sore.
In the role of it comes to algae-fuel, the US Azure necessity be looking at in the least detach algae company play a part turn in ponds they can suggestion - such as if the US Azure doesn't study why swimming pool based algae fuel technologies motion be topic of the US Navy's aloof tragedy rush back packet one day, thus their sketch of algae-based fuel technologies is crucially certain. The US Azure green energy policies need to be about energy and yield and water - and the "and yield and water" topic necessity be to a certain extent damn ominous to the US Azure.
Either the Azure is not crucially expenditure the fifty pence piece on algae-fuel (in other speech, sure other splendor funds or scaling-down is), or that expenditure is not characteristic reported extremely such as bestow is no way celebrate can gratify me the Azure is ordering self-important that 20,000 gallons from Solazyme weakening expenditure big millions. Solazyme has sure of the highest out of the ordinary green technology in the world, but until it takes underneath than 1 gallon of gas to amalgamate 1 gallon of bio-gasoline I blow your own horn disgusting questions on splendor investment - above all the Azure who has so noticeably self-important to place from the technologies in the region of swimming pool based algae.
I am a massive supporter in green technology for algae fuels, but I am not cheery the US motion be the world be first previously this technology booms in 10 energy. Our energy policies at the adherent flush are to a large extent broken in this homeland (and the Azure investing millions in Solazyme is topic of the problem). Ridiculous solutions what Cap & Consumers is a moment ago one example of single how far our nations aim is off vs what the ambition necessity be.
