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Interview with Algae to Fuel Dude
From a May 16 article in Haaretz------------ When Dr. Isaac Berzin talks about algae, he forgets everything else. He starts talking a mile a minute, and sometimes he talks about true love. "When I look at them through the microscope, I see them doing belly dances, and they have this small mustache that they wave. They are really cute," he says with a passion that he makes no effort to hide... Time magazine this month included Berzin in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world for 2008. He is in the company of George Bush, Hillary Clinton, the Dalai Lama, Oprah Winfrey, and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (as a couple)... In the 1970s and 1980s, in the wake of the fuel crises that were spawned by political crises, the national laboratory for alternative energy in the United States decided to try to produce fuel from algae...After 20 years of research and tens of millions of dollars.. I discovered that they had worked for 20 years and produced zero gallons of fuel. Twenty years and how many scientific articles? Hundreds. I realized that the project was an academic platform for them, that no one there was really determined to make fuel from algae."... "As soon as one energy farm proves itself economically - and that will happen within a year and a half [somebody posted something on this a few weeks ago, it is a project in AZ or NM - it might have been me] we will be able to establish similar farms all over the world.... Posted by: mhw 2008-05-19 |
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