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October 29th, 2013 at 12:33 pm
“Washington, the DOE’s Inspector General published a 24-page Follow-up Audit of the Department of Energy’s Financial Assistance for Integrated Biorefinery Projects”, which found that “despite over 7 years of effort and the expenditure of about $603 million, the Department had not yet achieved its biorefinery development and production goals.” Biofuel Digest – September 18, 2013″
COMMENT FROM AN ALGAE PRODUCER: We’ve made ASTM 6751 spec algal based biodiesel which we used to run tractors and other diesel equipment on our project. We also did the only full scale, commercial, productivity demonstration (Ogaard et. al. 2011). We have been continually overlooked or dismissed on DOE grants and have compelling, irrefutable evidence that they DID NOT even read our grant applications, which indicates that DOE selection process was negligent, prejudicial and biased as the evidence clearly indicates. Because of this gross negligence, our project, the ONLY functional, demonstrable commercial scale pilot project in the industry, just ran out of funds and is being shut down and mothballed. Is it not ludicrous that 44 million dollars went into the black hole of National Lab consortiums who failed miserably, when our project can run ponds at more than a ton of algae per acre foot of water, harvest more than 1100 pounds of pure nannochloropsis a week (per acre/foot of water) and extract more than a liter of high omega III oil every hour….and we go broke!!! Taxpayers should be incensed at the complete and total incompetence of the DOE, the Algal Biomass Organization, and others who have perpetuated the bias and the fraud that’s given this industry this horrible black eye.
The office of the Inspector General and the General Accounting Office should initiate investigations into this outrage.