Another role for algae: hydrogen production
Saturday, February 25th, 2006For 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 senior energy reporter and 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 cleantech market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper. Tyler can be reached at tyler@cleanbreak.ca