“…Resource assessment includes the resource potential (e.g., biomass/lipid production rates and quantity of production per unit time and area), the resource demand (e.g., suitable land area; water type, quality, source, supply, and transport; availability and transport of nutrients and CO2; soils and geology; and existing competition for resources), and the risks that impact the resource supply or demand (e.g., droughts, floods, earthquakes, infrastructure availability, supply disruptions, temporal availability). Many prior studies established and demonstrated resource assessment from which this research is directly or indirectly built upon [8][9][10][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. Resource assessment used in concert with TEA helps to identify the most probable and sustainable locations for microalgae production facility development using the best available knowledge of resources, as described above, and the economics driving required resource supplies, production, and product delivery.…”