Sentences with phrase «algae cultivation»
«Algae cultivation technique could advance biofuels: Production could take days, not weeks.»
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There are basically two options for a carbon source in algae cultivation: either carbon dioxide in the air and in industrial emissions, or organic waste.
If 60 million acres of land, approximately the area of Oregon, were given over to algae cultivation, «we could reasonably produce 300 billion gallons of algae biofuels per year.»
An algae cultivation model favored by Zivo Bioscience eschews complex and costly fermentation systems, photo - bioreactors, panels and tubes associated with microalgae production in favor of the most basic and cost - efficient models: a covered, shallow pond constructed of inexpensive, readily - available materials obtainable in many parts of the world.
Not exact matches
«The science here is still in its infancy,» says Weeks, who compares today's algae specialists to the ancient Mesoamericans who domesticated teosinte, the slender, meager grain that was bred into modern corn after some 8,000 years of cultivation.
This process can be inefficient, however, since the gaseous carbon dioxide tends to bubble out of solution and into the atmosphere above the algal cultivation system before it is consumed by the algae.
Carbon dioxide has been supplied to algal cultivation systems to promote growth of the algae.
This process can be inefficient, however, since the gaseous carbon dioxide tends to bubble out of solution and into the atmosphere above the algal cultivation system before it is consumed by the algae.
Carbon dioxide has been supplied to algal cultivation systems to promote growth of the algae.
«Even with relatively favorable and forward - looking process assumptions (from cultivation to harvesting to processing), algae oil production with microalgae cultures will be expensive and, at least in the near - to - mid-term, will require additional income streams to be economically viable,» the authors noted in a release highlighting their findings.»
Seen over at Inhabitat, their latest development is this fascinating Urban Algae Canopy Module which features bio-digitally activated, micro-algal cultivation that is responsive to various environmental factors like weather changes, light patterns and the movements of the visitors who will see it next year at Expo Milano 2015.