And algae's own mixed history has left the sector short on expertise.
There is more hope for offshore wind, which is technically trickier, since North Sea oil has left a legacy of marine-engineering expertise in Britain.
The financial crisis has left such debt underpriced because few people have the expertise to decipher what the collateral is worth and who would end up with it in the event of default.
Reliance on outside contractors has left personnel at NASA centers like the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., with little hands-on expertise.
Many highly skilled engineers and constructors had left; layers of expertise had gone missing.
We have left the Introduction as is, with the anticipation that readers with expertise in these areas may skip ahead to the Results and Discussion section of our paper.
Mr. Mason said government incentives and the expertise of local workers would probably have held the country's film industry together even if the Hobbit films had left.
As a result, trust in science and expertise has suffered.
How much worldwide marketing expertise has that involved?
Her area of expertise has been floor operations.
The program's expertise has its limits, though.
