What motivated you the most to begin development of WindFuels: an attempt to provide a fuel source, or an attempt to reduce global carbon emissions?
I’ve been active in both energy and environmental science and engineering for nearly 4 decades. For about 2 decades, I’ve been deeply concerned by what I saw as an absence of real scientific leadership toward practical solutions of either mega-challenge. I haven’t looked at either issue independently, and I’ve always kept practicality and competitiveness uppermost in my thinking. I was never a fan of carbon sequestration or hydrogen, because neither went to the root of the problem – the need for clean, renewable energy. For a while, I thought cellulosic ethanol and microalgae had a lot of promise – until I looked at the details of the science and engineering for myself (instead of accepting what others, who were not doing the needed calculations, were saying). I realized that we at Doty had a unique combination of skills that needed to be focused on looking for real solutions outside the boundaries of existing DOE programs. (This is difficult for most researchers to do because the DOE
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