San Antonio goes green by growing Algae
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Rather than punching holes into the ground to find petroleum, Murray envisions a shift to commercial production of native algae species and processing that harvest into biodiesel, which then would power the massive trucks that roar through San Antonio along the NAFTA corridor from Mexico.
Murray and his students are in the early stages of their project, which is beginning by collecting water samples and identifying the algal species that thrive in this area. There are at least 20,000 known species of algae in the world, he said.
“First we have to characterize the algae and pick the most robust strains for oil,” he said “The next step is to put them into production and harvest them as a crop.”
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March 24th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
All good news like this need
to be on television twenty-four
hours a day. It is news worthy
and needs to be in the public
consience as hope and moving
forward. All this type of news
is hidding in plain site on the
web. I propose a "Modern Energy
Channel" because this news is
being missed along with nano tech,
fuel cells and improvements to
solar energy.