Billions of gallons from diatoms

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I read this Ramachandra - Gordon idea of milking the diatoms a few months back.
Now, Raja Murthy has written about their idea in Asia Times.

The paper originally published by
Ramachandra, TV and Mahapatra, Durga Madhab and Karthick, B and Gordon, Richard (2009) Milking Diatoms for Sustainable Energy: Biochemical Engineering versus Gasoline-Secreting Diatom Solar Panels. In: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 48 (19). pp. 8769-8788.

is available at
http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/24542/

Looks like they are looking for funding to carry out research in a Canadian Univ.

Raja Murthy neednt have compared Exxon - Craing Ventor project to theirs. They are in two differnt fields.

This Gasoline secreting Diatom project sounds as interesting.

Just like a lot of manufacturing has shifted to China, it is time that a lot of Research shifts to India.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LG13Df03.html

Link : http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LG13Df03.html

Wed July 14 2010 12:54:46 AM by Shankar diatom 3332 views

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Krupali wrote:

Wed July 14 2010 07:18:22 AM

Other than Gordon, everyone else is sounding Indians going by their name.

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Jacintha wrote:

Wed July 14 2010 10:49:24 PM

The authors seem pretty confident. It will be great if the venture capitalists give them a chance.

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MiaFranceska wrote:

Wed July 14 2010 10:56:29 PM

I have the 4 mb pdf of the paper.
In case anyone needs it.

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Duncan wrote:

Thu July 15 2010 04:07:57 AM

MiaFranceska

Can u email to me, please !

dunkenneth@gmail.com

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Andy wrote:

Sat August 07 2010 02:09:23 AM

Same here, MiaFranceska: andygray@techie.com
Thank you

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