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Power your car with algae Posted: 10 months ago by wildminou
If you think algae is just that green grime that dirties up your pool, think again: it’s also a surprisingly viable source for biofuel
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Algae Could One Day Be Major Hydrogen Fuel Source Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
As gas prices continue to soar to record highs, motorists are crying out for an alternative that won’t cramp their pocketbooks. Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory are answering that call by working to chemically manipulate algae for production of the next generation of renewable fuels – hydrogen gas.
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Algae bloom kills birds, sea animals off California coast Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A bloom of ocean algae that produces a toxic acid has sickened and killed hundreds of birds, sea lions and dolphins in California, environmentalists said.
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Researchers identify novel anticancer drug from the sea Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
A collaborative team of researchers has identified a potent new anti-cancer drug isolated from a toxic blue-green algae found in the South Pacific.
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Red tide at dawn nostrils be warned Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
The stunning white sand beaches of Jervis Bay in New South Wales have been swamped with a bloom of red algae washed ashore by sea breezes. The algae has now died, begun to rot and is emitting a pungent odour in the process.
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Vermont Rivers Fight A Case Of Rock Snot Posted: 8 months ago by dollyllama
Rock snot is the descriptive nickname for didymosphenia geminata, or didymo, an aggressive aquatic algae that was found this summer in the Connecticut, White and Batten Kill rivers in Vermont.
*I got to post a story about Rock Snot!!
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Ecosphere! Posted: 8 months ago by muppetmaker
The pet that completely takes care of itself, Ecopshere! With a balance of shrimp, algae, and micro-organisms the tiny glass bubble can stay alive for years! I have one and its about a year old and its still alive and going strong.
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Natural Phenomenon -- The Red Tide Posted: 8 months ago by misswinkle
"No phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon" Niels Bohr.
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Swamp Thing Posted: 11 months ago by imagica
This guy picked the wrong pond to take a dip in.
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Don't Let the Algae Sour You on Hostess's Lemon Pie Posted: 4 months ago by jhordie
The yummy goodness inside a Hostess "fruit" pie.
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Long-awaited Biosub experiment is happening right now! Posted: 1 year ago by gnikgnok
Lloyd Godson plans to LIVE UNDERWATER for two weeks. He'll get oxygen from algae that live on his urine. He'll eat the algae, too. Ewww. If his pee plants don't produce enough oxygen, he can use a pedal-powered device to suck air from the surface.
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Earth Works: Art + Science? Artists Find Solutions to the World's Problems Posted: 2 months ago by eyanna7
From recycling urine and testing algae to creating animal habitats and transforming landfills into parks, artists are finding novel and sometimes quirky ways to heal the world
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Virgin biofuel jumbo trials won't use algae Posted: 6 months ago by topofall
Food into fuel - they have got to find a better way!
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Reemco's Plecostoma Posted: 12 months ago by melgesevad
The safe organic alternative to cleaning your pool! Reemco's Plecostoma is an inexpensive maintenance free method to keeping algae growth and water quality under control. Our research and development department has taken genetics into the twenty first century!
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