Billions of gallons from diatoms 13
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
Other than Gordon, everyone else is sounding Indians going by their name.
The authors seem pretty confident. It will be great if the venture capitalists give them a chance.
I have the 4 mb pdf of the paper.
In case anyone needs it.
MiaFranceska
Can u email to me, please !
dunkenneth@gmail.com
Same here, MiaFranceska: andygray@techie.com
Thank you