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Follow on Google News | National Algae Association Opens Door To CollaborationNAA Invites Congressional Algae Caucus, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Department of The Navy and US Department of Agriculture to its Commercial Algae Cultivation, Harvesting, Extraction Technologies and Networking Workshop
With that in mind, The National Algae Association has invited all of the members of the recently formed Congressional Algae Caucus, along with representatives from the US Departments of Defense, Energy, the Navy and Agriculture to learn how to commercialize algae production, which is what NAA promotes. NAA supports collaborative efforts between commercially- "So far, this vision is being realized more in other countries than our own," according to Cohen. "Foreign countries have been moving faster in deployment of commercial algae farms and indoor algae bio-manufacturing facilities for nutraceuticals, cosmetics, feeds, food and renewable fuels, in large part following the National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap released by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2010. The U.S., on the other hand, has continued to fund more research, at the expense of the failure to accomplish the deployment part of the original mission," Cohen continued. "Commercial algae production is active in Australia, Europe, Israel, Saudi Arabia, China, New Zealand, Mexico, Central America, Canada and other countries throughout the world. More and more NAA finds itself expanding internationally. Due to confidentiality and non-disclosure issues, university researchers whose projects have been funded by DoE grants cannot reveal whether any of their algae technologies have or can scale outside the lab. Follow-up with leaders of the DoE Biomass Technologies Office, formerly the Biomass Program ,have had disappointing results. "By the time they figure it out, the DoE will have supported another research project that will most likely make the last one obsolete. And it's gone on and on this way for decades." End
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