Algae

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Synopsis: 2.2. phishing: Algae:

At the bottom of this food chain, algae will feed fish, which feed bigger fish, which will feed in turn seafarers and landlubbers alike.

which coral protects itself from UV rays through its relationship with a symbiotic algae that lives within it.

The algae produces a chemical compound which is converted by the coral into its own UV-blocking sunscreen,

and the algae but also the fish that feed on the coral. This transference has led scientists to believe that

and primitive algae has resulted in drug and biofuel companies such as Amyris and LS9. But figuring out how to make changes in the genomes of more complicated organisms has been tough.

a blob-like water container made out of an edible algae membrane. While it still involves using something other than water,

Industrial scale printing of meat could additionally use cells grown in an algae-based cell culture

when billions of you are hanging GMO algae food sustenance bags off the sides of your houses

Coffee-sized machines 3d-print algae foodstuffs-precursor so we can handle the texture-hurdle. z=textstyle-frac {3}

@mjforrestyou do realize that the CO2 uptake of trees pales in comparison to that of algae.

#Turning algae into clean energy and fish food; helping Africans to irrigate cropscould algae that feast on wastewater produce clean biofuels and a healthful supply of fish food?

Can impoverished African community gardeners learn to use and maintain a simple centuries-old nonelectric water pump to grow more vegetables?

One of the Johns Hopkins student projects focuses on growing large masses of algae to address three sustainability issues:

Their goal is to deploy algae at wastewater treatment facilities to feed on hard-to-remove pollutants such as nitrogen and phosphorus

If algae can flourish while dining on these pollutants the plant-like organisms could then be used to produce renewable biofuels or food for fish farms.

If algae grow in these materials and then are eaten by fish is it safe for us to eat these fish?

At the same time the pathogens in wastewater such as viruses fungi and bacteria could destroy the algae themselves

With an initial EPA grant the student team tested 20 species of algae. We found two strains that can grow well alongside pathogens

or biofuel production is the most economically viable use for algae grown in wastewater. Their faculty advisers are Edward Bouwer professor and chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering and Michael Betenbaugh professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering.

and soybeans grow it stimulates the growth of plants in the water#algae in the Gulf.

The algae bloom and eventually die and decay removing oxygen from the water. The result is water too oxygen-depleted to support life.#

in order to stimulate the growth of algae which sequesters carbon. The approach ranked as the study's least viable strategy in part

because less than a quarter of the algae could be expected to eventually sink to the bottom of the ocean which would be the only way that carbon would be sequestered for a long period of time.

Additionally increasing the algae blooms would likely wreak havoc by decreasing the oxygen available for other marine life.

Visuals. 2. Genetically-engineered saltwater algae. In the March-April 2009 issue of THE FUTURIST, Dennis Bushnell, a chief research scientist at NASA

wrote that algae and bacteria are the two most important biofuel technologies of the 21st century.

As a replacement for oil, algae is extremely practical, utilizes mostly cheap and abundant resources like saltwater and wasteland,

Unlike corn or even sugar ethanol, halophyte algae (algae that grow in saltwater) do not compete with food stocks for freshwater. oewhen the cost of pumping ocean water into so-called wasteland regions such as the Sahara

the cost of halophytic algae biofuel is less than the cost of petroleum trading at $70 per barrel or higher.

halophyte algae farmers could use solar-powered pumps to move water up from sea level or even up from underground aquifers such as the Nubian sandstone aquifer system that sits beneath desolate regions of Libya, Chad, and Sudan.

productive real estate. oehalophytic algae, cultivated correctly, could lessen the world food and water shortages. Some 68%of the freshwater that is now tied up in conventional agriculture could

algae require only a fraction of the land area of many other crops. Read Bushnell op-ed for THE FUTURIST. 3. Ocean-current power.

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