How Algae Just Got Sexy in the Race for Biofuel Energy; BACKGROUNDFrom sewage to algae - researchers at the European Bioenergy Research Institute (EBRI) at Aston University are investigating the energy-generating potential of a biomass sources.The Birmingham Post (England)...
Algae has been a hot topic in the clean energy community for years; it can be used to produce biofuel efficiently, with minimal water use, and without taking up arable land. ButSolazyme, a San Francisco-based algae fuel startup, is expanding its brand by bringing algae technology into the ...
“Barbara’s almost the leader of our team — she’s been through it all,” said Craig Griffin, the United States cycling coach. “She’s never retired. She’s never let her body go and then come back. I don’t think age is as big of a deal as people make it out to be.” ...
Fungi have been companions of mankind for millennia. Mushrooms inspired our eating culture, and yeasts and filamentous fungi were developed into highly efficient cell factories during the last 100 years to produce many products utilized in different indu
Cost-effective renewable energy, biofuel Water filter Mosquito prevention Prevents algae growth Reduces evaporation on bodies of water Virtually free animal feed Food for humans Duckweed as a Water Filter Duckweed loves muck. It can clean the water from farms that are rearing cows, hogs, chickens,...
While the true purpose of these iridescent structures, cells known as iridocytes, was not known, the team had a strong hypothesis. Like neighboring coral, giant clams are home to symbiotic algae that grow within their flesh. These algae convert the abundant sunlight of the clams' equatorial ho...
Biofuel infrastructure is still under development in many parts of the world, and the processes to produce some types of biofuel are not yet efficient enough to justify large-scale production [source: Pimentel]. But the need to find a more environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuels means...
1,700 buses to run on a special engine that runs on bothbiodieselandrecycled vegetable oildonated by local restaurants. In 2009, the first bus, the Fryer Flyer, took to the road. Officials expect to save $400,000 each year by running its entire bus fleet on the biofuel [source: NPR]....
biofuel was a market in need of some help. over the years, a new batch of so-called "second generation" biofuel companies had mastered the chemistry needed to turn everything from algae to chicken grease into efficiently burning fuels. the navy even flew one of its supersonic fighter jets ...
To combat such devastation legislation has just been introduced to make two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef, off the east coast of Australia, into a protected area under conservation plans announced by the Australian Government in December 2002, forming the largest network of protected marine ...