In a laboratory where almost all the test tubes look green, the tools of modern biotechnology are being applied to lowly pond scum ... to optimize biofuel production from algae," said Matthew ...

One of the easiest processes to understand, open-pond growing is also the most natural way to cultivate algae for biodiesel production. As its name implies, algae are grown on open ponds in this ...

The plan is to grow millions of acres of algae in large open ponds filled with wastewater and then harvest oil from the algae and turn it into biodiesel fuel. Energy crisis solved. Global warming ...

Getting an algae biodiesel program running was deemed economically ... with some strands carrying more than 50 percent oil content. They can grow in the most hostile of regions such as deserts ...

Biofuel produced from algae, essentially pond scum ... relatively flat over about 1,200 acres to support freshwater ponds to grow the algae, a well-tested method to grow algae that the team ...

Unlike soybeans for biodiesel, however, algae would grow well in the desert ... And maybe people would forget that it began life as pond scum.

The water needs to be just the right temperature for algae to proliferate, and even then open ponds can ... hopes its pilot plant will see initial yields of 8000 gallons of biodiesel and 5000 ...

Oil-rich plants such as soy offer a cleaner energy alternative, known as biodiesel ... It's algae, a small but familiar plant, usually seen as a green scum that forms on ponds or aquarium glass.

Several Missouri universities and electric companies plan to use the carbon dioxide pollution from coal-fired power plants to grow green pond ... fuel. Algae oil can be processed into biodiesel ...

Backers of algae ... biodiesel. "Our other co-products, like environmental remediation and carbon dioxide sequestration, we don't know the price of those," Vidt said. But the idea of growing ...

Across Africa, many rural communities face a growing sanitation crisis. Wastewater treatment systems, where they exist, are ...

Getting an algae biodiesel program running was deemed economically ... with some strands carrying more than 50 percent oil content. They can grow in the most hostile of regions such as deserts ...