That's true,
Still there's some fat cat quango green initiative money out there.
www.carbontrust.co.uk/emerging-technologies/current-focus-areas/algae-biofuels-challenge/pages/algae-biofuels-challenge.aspx
(PsychoChomp, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:32, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Actually that funding has stopped.
Probably some euro money about though.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:34, Reply)

carbon trust are cunts* and I wouldn't touch them with yours


*carbon trust are not actually cunts but have really prohibitive IP restrictions which mean I'm not prepared to work with them at the moment.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:34, Reply)

They seem a bit too slick to me.
edit: but anyway I think it's a good idea, and if you can use waste or contaminated water and clean it with the Algae you'll add another way to make money.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:35, Reply)

you need fairly hardcore shit
to deal with contaminated water - rhodococcus, clostridia, say, rather than algae - but we've looked at linked systems to do both.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 17:00, Reply)