America's dependency on non-renewable petroleum resources is at the heart of our nation's greatest problems, creating unprecedented challenges in economic, environmental and geo-political arenas. Renewable, low-impact biofuels, especially ethanol, produced in industrialized algae farms, are poised to transform the transportation energy market and play a leading role in solving these problems. The world's need for renewable transportation fuels has never been greater. Our vision is to become a world leader in large-scale, affordable production of ethanol using photosynthesis as the energy source. We are committed to affordable, clean, low-impact, renewable energy.

1. There is increasing political pressures in the U.S. that traditional “corn” ethanol, which in 2007 used over 25% of the annual corn crop, has had potentially far-reaching economic impact on our society (food vs. fuel).

2. Even though rises in crude oil prices have far greater effects on our food prices than the price of corn, expanding corn to ethanol conversion in the future could have a greater effect than what we have seen to date.

3. The Algenol solution helps end this debate and allows for resources to be distributed accordingly to both renewable fuels and food production.

4. Algenol’s Direct to EthanolTM process is complementary, not competitive to corn growing, eliminating the food vs. fuel debate and not driving up the cost of foods.

5. The Direct to EthanolTM process does not use any food as a feedstock (e.g. no corn, no sugarcane) nor does it use fossil fuel and arable land to grow alternative feedstock (e.g. cellulosic feedstock such as corn stover, sugarcane bagasse, switchgrasses, wood fibers etc.), thus leaving arable land for food production.