Another role for algae: hydrogen production
For the record, I’ll point out this article in Wired.com, about how researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have come up with a way of using algae to produce hydrogen through photosynthesis. You’ll recall that companies such as GreenFuel Technologies Corp. are also experimenting with algae, on the scale of large farms, as a way to sequester carbon dioxide (and other nasty emissions) and eventually harvest the green stuff for use in biodiesel, ethanol and plastics production.
Boy, there’s never been a better time to be mutant scum.
Tyler Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and a business columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the clean technology and green energy market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.
