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Ever since it became a concern that we needed to find an alternative to oil and gas way back in the 1970s and ‘80s during two oil embargoes, the focus was to develop alternative fuels from sources grown from the soil.
But with the latest energy crisis more and more of the techies have been turning to sea based sources like algae to play around with. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California in San Diego has been researching the use of marine algae as a source for biofuels. Actually the Institution has been involved in algae research as an alternative energy source since 1987. Researchers say that algae are “the most efficient organisms on Earth for absorbing light energy and converting it into a natural biomass oil product.” They say that algae actually yields five to 10 times more bioenergy molecules per area and per time than any plant. Our take? Imagine a series of energy production plants all across the U.S. with ponds beside them that grow algae. Man, back when we were kids, that green stuff that rested on the surface of ponds was kind of icky. Now they’re kind of cool.
via Underwater Times