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| The corporations Chevron, Honeywell, and Boeing are starting algae businesses. According to Boeing\'s technology leader for energy and emissions, Dave Daggett, \'In the past two years, we have changed from algae skeptics to proponents\'. [21] The development challenge is to reduce the cost of producing algae oil in commercial volumes, i.e. billions of gallons...Algae can be used as a biological source for the production of hydrogen. In 1939 a German researcher named Hans Gaffron, while working at the University of Chicago, observed that the algae he was studying, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (a green alga), would sometimes switch from the production of oxygen to the production of hydrogen. Read the full article |
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