Local Innovators Explore Algae as a Fuel Source
In Attleboro in November, Comey started growing a tray full of cyclotella cryptica, a strain of algae native to Martha’s Vineyard.
So far, the group’s shoestring budget has lacked the money for the microscope and centrifuge Comey needs to quantify the growing results.
But a winter’s worth of experiments has yielded promising results with the growing environment for the algae — a solar greenhouse that uses no conventional fuel.
On Monday, Comey will travel to the New England Food Show in Boston to try to sell the greenhouse design to vegetable growers as an affordable way to produce herbs and other crops they might sell to restaurants in the winter.
For the innovators, greenhouse sales would help finance the equipment necessary for the algae experiments, Comey said.
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