Sunday, October 23, 2011

Trouble in the algae lab for Craig Venter and Exxon

Click here to access article by Steve LeVine from Foreign Policy. 

Just to keep you up to date on the energy front, I thought you should know about this latest development. All is not so bright and promising with Exxon-Mobil's widely touted research on bio-fuel created from algae as shown in this commercial:




Wouldn't it be wonderful if Venter could invent a new algae cell? Just imagine all the money that could be made by capitalists from that intellectual property right! (sarcasm) They would have a monopoly on this fuel and they could, and would, charge the limit for it.