Student Algae Bio-fuel Project
Posted on November 5, 2006 Comments (3)
Students take algae-to-biofuel project to MIT by J.T. Leonard. Photo: Tessa Churchill, left, and Holly Jacobson. The students are competing in the regional finals of the Siemens Math, Science & Technology competition.
In a nutshell, the young women may have found a way to produce more biodiesel fuel while consuming fewer organic resources.
The project got its start two years ago when Jacobson and Churchill began examining natural oils stored in fatty acids — called lipids — in various forms of marine algae. Recently, they identified a strain of algae that produces more oil for a given mass.
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April 15th, 2007 @ 8:49 am
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April 10th, 2008 @ 4:05 am
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