Thanks for your comments. I didn't manage to get anyone in California, let alone South Africa, to return my calls for this story, so your info is appreciated.
Responses to your editorial-related points:
1) "Algae biodiesel reactors" - You're correct; there are algae bioreactors, and there are biodiesel reactors. I've revised the story to fix two references that were, as you put it, garbled. Mea culpa.
2) Green Star's expertise - In the absence of being able to talk with anyone at Green Star (see the article itself - I was hung up on and never received a response to the voicemail I subsequently left), I reproduced what looked like very relevant information from publicly-available shareholder documents.
Re: DeBeers' overall prospects, I wish the company well. Personally, nothing would make us here at Inside Greentech happier than to see algae-based biofuel trump petro and even corn-based ethanol. Yet leading experts have become more vocal in recent weeks that algae is not yet close to being a viable biofuel feedstock.
For instance, as quoted in our story Biofuel from algae on horizon, say experts, Cary Bullock, CEO of GreenFuel - the company that sold DeBeers its algae bioreactor - told a group of hundreds of investors recently that they're still years away from being able to make large quantities of algae.
Maybe South Africa's meteorological and/or business climates can help accelerate the process.
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Submitted on January 5th, 2007 by Dana ChildsThanks for your comments. I didn't manage to get anyone in California, let alone South Africa, to return my calls for this story, so your info is appreciated.
Responses to your editorial-related points:
1) "Algae biodiesel reactors" - You're correct; there are algae bioreactors, and there are biodiesel reactors. I've revised the story to fix two references that were, as you put it, garbled. Mea culpa.
2) Green Star's expertise - In the absence of being able to talk with anyone at Green Star (see the article itself - I was hung up on and never received a response to the voicemail I subsequently left), I reproduced what looked like very relevant information from publicly-available shareholder documents.
Re: DeBeers' overall prospects, I wish the company well. Personally, nothing would make us here at Inside Greentech happier than to see algae-based biofuel trump petro and even corn-based ethanol. Yet leading experts have become more vocal in recent weeks that algae is not yet close to being a viable biofuel feedstock.
For instance, as quoted in our story Biofuel from algae on horizon, say experts, Cary Bullock, CEO of GreenFuel - the company that sold DeBeers its algae bioreactor - told a group of hundreds of investors recently that they're still years away from being able to make large quantities of algae.
Maybe South Africa's meteorological and/or business climates can help accelerate the process.