Submission + - A different approach to making alternative fuels practical 1
overmod writes: Browsing on a completely unrelated subject, I came across this New York Times description of Solazyme: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/business/for-solazyme-a-side-trip-on-the-way-to-clean-fuel.html?src=me&ref=general
What I find interesting is the model they've adopted for short-term growth, which I would not have 'seen coming' from a technology oriented toward biofuel production. Leads me to wonder what other nominally-green technologies that would otherwise be slow if not impossible to scale to workable businesses might have 'niche' applications, with high perceived marginal value, that could be used to boost capital, rather than relying on donations, grants, nebulous save-the-planet goodwill, or whatever.
What I find interesting is the model they've adopted for short-term growth, which I would not have 'seen coming' from a technology oriented toward biofuel production. Leads me to wonder what other nominally-green technologies that would otherwise be slow if not impossible to scale to workable businesses might have 'niche' applications, with high perceived marginal value, that could be used to boost capital, rather than relying on donations, grants, nebulous save-the-planet goodwill, or whatever.
