This subcommittee is going to try to have an impact on that, and we tried to have an impact on that in the stimulus bill as well to make sure that most of these things tend to move toward the geologic side of things because of CCS.

Congress should authorize and appropriate funds for a comprehensive research, development, and demonstration program administered by the U.S. Department of Energy specifically focused on algae energy systems.

The question is not 'whether,' it is 'how' do we address it?

If we are smart and we go about this the right way, we might well find that you can create an asset in terms of trying to deal with what we consider a liability.

I think when we try to address this larger issue of climate change and carbon capture and so on we really do need to think outside the box.

We need to make a significant effort to decarbonize coal, and the question is what do you do with that carbon?

The question isn't whether we use coal. The question is how.

I don't mean to interrupt you, but if you are doing it right now and it was demonstrated at scale that you can produce a product of substantial value and sequester virtually all of the CO2 at the same time, it seems to me there would be a…

Congress should support and strengthen policies inclusive of algae energy system development in future energy and climate change legislation and loan guarantees for commercial demonstrations.

Where do you think the most successful work is going on in algae at the moment on a trial basis?

It is an unbelievable miscarriage of justice, and I have been working on that case for several months.