Algae Power

Posted: December 15, 2017 Under: Uncategorized By green No Comments

The algae’s third eye January 12, 2019
[Germany] Just like land plants, algae use sunlight as an energy source. Many green algae actively move in the water; they can approach the light or move away from it. For this they use special sensors (photoreceptors) with which they perceive light. The decades-long search for these light sensors led to a first success in […]
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This Young Scientist project is turning algae into pints of the black stuff (crude oil, that is) January 11, 2019
[UK] The number of projects relating to climate change and renewables at this year’s BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition shows they are key issues for teenagers. One attracting interest – partly thanks to it’s clever branding, alluding to pints of the ‘black stuff’ – targets the efficiency of a decades-old method of producing biofuel, […]
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Shrimp made from algae that looks and tastes like the real thing January 11, 2019
[USA] Shrimp, the United States’ most popular seafood, is notorious for being farmed using practices that destroy the environment. New Wave Foods, a startup based in San Francisco, has set out to create a sustainable replacement. The key ingredient in its “shrimp”, which is actually 100% vegetarian, is algae, a plant that is already found […]
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Jenny Splitter: Algae might be about to disrupt the plant-based protein market December 19, 2018
[USA] Triton is a company poised for disruption. The San Diego-based start-up, Triton Algae Innovations, is hitting all the right notes—plant-based, sustainable, synthetic biology—serving up what co-founder and scientist Miller Tran calls an “untapped well of proteins” that offers more than what’s currently available on the plant-based market. Even though algae has long been proposed […]
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How to get the most fuel out of microalgae? December 15, 2018
Researchers are investigating ways to improve biodiesel production by using electrical fields to break open microalgae cells, with varied results, according to a new study in the Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology. Lipids inside microalgae are a promising source of biofuel. Microalgae cells must first be broken apart in order to extract the lipids. […]
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Ama sea beauty blooms local seaweed skincare December 11, 2018
[USA] “Every single day, Mother Nature throws on the beach everything we need for food, beauty, and medicine,” says Antoinette Marquez, the founder of Ama Sea Beauty. “[The ocean] is our amniotic fluid and we are meant to be in it.” Ama Sea Beauty offers a line of mineral-rich skin care, including a cleanser, algae […]
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Open raceway ponds, plastic bags or glass tubes? December 10, 2018
[Global] Open raceway ponds, plastic bags and glass tubes are some of the most common algae cultivation systems. However, it is always difficult to know which of these systems could meet your expectation. Schott AG has published an e-book to compare and explain among each of these production methods. Unlike most other books which focused […]
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Steve Baragona: Algae harnessed to make clean water, clean power December 6, 2018
[USA] “Nature sometimes isn’t pretty,” said University of Maryland environmental scientist Peter May, grabbing a clump of slimy green-brown gunk. That gunk lines the bottom of what’s called an algal turf scrubber at the Port of Baltimore. The meter-wide, shallow channel runs the length of a football field alongside one of the port’s giant parking […]
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This algae curtain may lead to healthier air in cities December 5, 2018
[UK] If you’re concerned about the lack of trees in cities, there may be something in the works to help calm you down. Photo.Synth.Etica is essentially a giant curtain that uses algae to help create oxygen and clean the air. I’ve lived in some places with terrible air quality and can only hope that something […]
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Algae protein might be the next vegan replacement for dairy milk December 4, 2018
[USA] Triton Algae Innovations is developing a production platform that’s capable of replicating cow milk proteins. The San Diego-based startup is focusing on building up a vegan algae product. The “non-GMO ‘wild type’ whole algae ingredient” tastes similar to sweet parsley, the company reports. The algae product can be used in nutritional bars, cereals, yogurts, […]
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