Estech, Inc. was founded to carry out R&D on Algal Turf Scrubbing, ecosystem modeling, aquaculture and the scale-up of water cleaning systems. In agreement with most of the scientific community, we recognize that atmospheric alteration and resulting global warming, is a serious environmental issue. Global warming is the first human-created, global-altering process to become widely-accepted. Biodiversity loss and habitat reduction, as well as unsustainable fishing, are widely known in the scientific and environmental communities, but have not been seriously addressed. Global scale degeneration of our hydrosphere is more insidious, because it largely remains beyond public view. Numerous “dead” areas, some the size of countries, have been created by human waste waters, mostly in bays and gulfs around the fringes of oceans. In addition, waste toxic compounds are everywhere in the world ocean, reaching the most remote regions. This dumping of human waste products not only affects many wild populations of fish and marine mammals, but also negatively affects a large part of humanity.

Algal turfs build their biomass principally from CO₂, at a very high rate. We feel that Algal Turf Scrubbing can play a crucial role in slowing and eventually blocking the progress of global warming, at the same time being a critical source of solar bioenergy. We are very concerned that the current “favored solution” to these problems is large scale, bioenergy agriculture (principally corn, soy and sugar). The comparatively low, solar efficiency of these crops, the very large land areas required, leading to critical tropical forest clearing, along with a necessity to fertilize and provide herbicides and pesticides, provides serious environmental challenges. Equally important, agriculture bioenergy will be a serious competitor with food production, and will lead to accelerated soil destruction. Moreover, this expansion of agriculture will provide unparalleled aquatic pollution. It is inevitable that an agricultural solution to global warming will produce a hydrospheric degradation that will be much more difficult to solve and will perhaps have even greater consequences than global warming for life on Earth.

We ask everyone interested in global solutions to our environment problems to bring this website, and its links to the attention of responsible government, foundation and business leaders and to friends and associates. These problems can be solved, but they involve serious commitment to solutions, rather than business as usual.