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Artificial Life, Biofuels & Climate Change: The ABC Of Synthetic Biology

Posted on 24. May, 2010 by Ross.

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Last week the mainstream media was set alight by the news that scientists had created the world’s first artificial bacteria, leading to excitement at the applications of the science, accusations of playing God and bewilderment at the speed of new advances in synthetic biology.
Whilst ten years ago such ground-breaking advances in biochemistry were all focused [...]

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Algae Biofuels Need Sewage And Coal To Be Green

Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by Ross.

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Hailed as the greenest form of biofuels, algae-based biofuels have come under fire for being less environmentally friendly than other forms of biofuel by using more energy, water and greenhouse gas emissions to produce. However, coal power stations and sewage treatment plants could easily turn the tables to make algae biofuels the greenest solution available.
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Algae Will Avert Climate Change… By Destroying The Human Race!

Posted on 20. Oct, 2009 by Ross.

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Here at Energy-Saving News, we think algae’s great. From algae-based biofuels to algae batteries; from algae which produce hydrogen for fuel cell cars to cleaning up coal pollution and turning it into fuel, algae are beginning to dominate the cleantech environment.
However, the explosion in interest in algae as a bioengineering solution to climate change has [...]

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Will Algae Fuel The Hydrogen Economy?

Posted on 29. Sep, 2009 by Ross.

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The potential of harvested algae in the fight against global warming is a step closer to yet another massive contribution.
Whilst algae biofuels are starting to garner massive amounts of venture capitalism, and other potential applications such as algae batteries start to emerge from the depths of science fiction to become viable low-tech contenders to lithium [...]

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Organic Algae Batteries A Match For Lithium

Posted on 14. Sep, 2009 by Ross.

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Thought that algae-based biofuels were all that algae was good for? (As if that wasn’t enough!)
Thought that Bolivia was to become the cleantech equivalent of Saudi Arabia, with their vast lithium reserves?
Well, a team of Swedish researchers at Uppsala University has harnessed a particularly despised species of algae to produce a lightweight organic battery which, [...]

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What are Algae Biofuels?

Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by Ross.

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Algae-based biofuels, or algal biofuels, are sources of biodiesel, bioethanol and other biofuels derived from simple organisms such as algae and phytoplankton. As with plants and other photosynthetic organisms, algae use sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and biomass.
Why bother with algal biofuels?
The key reasons to research biofuels are of course all [...]