Anyone else embarrassed about us trying to push this? It obviously will not work and the strategy makes us look like mo–ns to the world.
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They need to outsource this research. Americans are too expensive to do it.
Who are the worthless people running and participating in the worthless algae scam? Are all cuplrits lowly CSR employees with zero brains?
Waste of money that will not ever make the return on investment.
Don't understand why our id–t CEO doesn't understand the different between low ROI (solar/wind energy investment) between NO ROI like a these stupid initiatives. He just drives public perception of the company into a ditch where we will soon be the face of destroying the world after coal goes away.
I will like this post to stay alive – when you click Active Post at least it will show up.
The fraud and people living on fraudulent virtue need to be exposed.
If there was any merit in algae towards greenhouse gas reduction, it would have been accounted in plan.
When they published those “self-help” measures in Bloomberg, algae was not even mentioned.
So either there would be no measurable benefits by 2025 or it won’t do anything at all.
I heard once that one should not attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence, but this reeks of both.
Just to keep this relevant post exposing our very "drain on corporation, biofuels program" and its incompetent employees and managers, here is a relevant add-on:
Fire All of CSR (Corporate Strategic Research in Clinton/Annandale, New Jersey). Algae fraud is no different than fraud in each and every group in the stinking old building. Good scientists existed in 70s and 80s. They are now replaced by bunch of braindead section heads, managers and lab directors and plentiful below average PhDs running horse c-ap research programs. Go hire Ohio State, Texas Tech, Louisiana State and Kansas State employees
This 5-day old post and the string behind it reminds me of
the stinking algae in the Koi pond at Dallas HQ.
Pointless drizzle.
The DOE is investing in Hydrogen power. Why didn't any of our top paid scientists do any research into this?
Fire all these useless bunch who are at the low level management promoted by worthless lab directors and VPs in the past.
Keep this post on the top so the world can see how corrupt corporate America part operates. It takes s—ers and promotes them over hard working employees to systematically ruin a great organization.
Just another example of failing corporate america. talkers and media darlings get awarded, real work is not being appreciated.
Point well taken. Ok with me if you want to say that CSR in Clinton, New Jersey if just full of filthy low level management.
@3jwi - unfortunately, you are correct. Even though she is completely clueless and relies completely on Synthetic Genomics Inc for all bio-engineering expertise.
However, she has been chosen as the poster child - the face of EM’s biofuel research - and has featured in commercials. Therefore she is untouchable.
Just like the current commercial accounts manager, who was useless at anything technical and was promoted for reasons of “potential”. It also didn’t hurt that she had 3 levels of male bosses who all seemed enamoured of her and protected her, during and after some very embarrassing project stewardship reviews.
Won't hurt KEL's career one little bit. Eat your hearts out, haters! Management protects their own
What person with biology background with even mediocre knowledge/talent will take a job in an Oil and Gas company?
This should answer the doubt and resolve any puzzles some may have on why the EM biofuels program has zero internal productivity and in general usefulness.
Algae biofuels is such a farce that even those working on it in CSR don't believe in it. It is probably the most blatantly dishonest thing XOM does. I mean there is NO commercial merit WHATSOEVER to our algae work. We have it EXCLUSIVELY for greenwashing. It's embarrassing. We are either dumb–ses who truly believe it will work or we are bold face liars looking to deceive the public. Its the latter.
Yep - several earlier threads have unmasked the con job that is the algae research. Not only is it a prime example of CSR claiming credits for work done by another, specialized company, but even a high school student would realize that the necessary upscale could never be achieved. It’s been estimated that an area the size of the Gulf of Mexico would need to be converted into an algae farm, to make a significant contribution to the US fuels market.
Why did CSR decide not to pursue hydrogen in their white paper? Shell has just launched its blue hydrogen process, and there's a lot of investment globally in H2.
YES!
EM is a bigger industry laughing stock than Oxy. And that takes some real effort.
ake The only objective of the algae project was to make commercials with people in lab coats, you know “research”. Our version of greenwashing is heavily titled to partnerships to crate the illusion of trust.
I know for a fact managers know it won’t work at he scale or the cost - it makes no sense from an energy balance perspective.
As long as analysts and investors keep not asking the right questions, managers continue to get away with their misinformation campaign. Eventually, like any deception in this crumbling empire, it will come out.
You may not remember when Exxon got into the electronic word processing business in the 1980s, back when all the secretaries still had IBM Selectric typewriters on their desks. Exxon Office Systems was formed and then rapidly ate the dust of more nimble and technically superior high-tech companies.
At least algae research resides in the same neighborhood, being an alternative energy source, unlike word processing which doesn't even inhabit the same planet as an oil company.
This is what we meant by “taking on the world’s toughest energy challenges”. We mean what we say, no need to be embarrassed by it. Embrace our against the grain strategy.
My kids in elementary and junior high can do slightly less than that at much lower costs. Other major oils must be laughing at this advertisement within.
Resources invested by EM in the algae strategy is a waste of the company's time, talent, and treasure. It would never have the scale needed to replace conventional crude oil sources. In my opinion, this was done as a way for the Corporation to show EM is working on innovative fuel sources. Of course this has not developed into a viable solution after so many years. It time to shut it down and reallocate these resources.
Thank you, thank you for brining this to attention. This is how CSR works – VP and incompetent management favor people who s— up to them "socially" and advance them as leaders to lead such programs including the CSR algae biofuels program and many others.
Look at pre-Covid town halls. Management selected a– kissers to present their (useless) work all the time. You could guess which handful of the people will be presenting in the Town Hall based on their "personal" likability to VP and mo–nic lab directors.
When worthless people get together and make decisions you have algae like fraud. Look at the group that studies Life Cycle Management – a high school student can do in two weeks what bunch or CSR id–ts have accomplished in more than 2 years.
it turns out our genius executives are frauds.
nothing but a congregation of conformist lemmings.
Great example of how we deny the laws of nature (and business sense) and live in a parallel universe. Embarrassed that I didn’t see the writing on the wall that this was another symptom of our GE like success theatre