It's been a while on this journey folks....

Not every environmentalist was down to dance their jig in front of Wall Street.

Not every scientist was equipped for the ecosystem provisions on these grants.

Not every accelerator was down to hear that feedstock production would come from an offshore continent spanning from Mexico to Africa.

That is, except one institution: Department of Energy.

Much love and thanks to President Nixon for his foresight around energy independence. There was a good amount of negativity with his tenure, but if it wasn't for him we'd still be choking on coal soot and asking the barons to go easy on the chimney sweepers.

Macroalgae is now cool in the govt: https://www.energy.gov/eere/bioenergy/articles/department-energy-announces-10-million-algal-systems-research-and

What's next? We'll have to push this out of the labs along the TRL readiness ladder, with all our partners and ecosystem friends. Working across the aisle whenever possible, we'll be able to make sure hydrogen hits $1/kg by 2031.