Sentences with phrase «into algal»

The modular Pod can be placed in any interior space, or in exterior areas like a rooftop or even public parks, and can be equipped with different tools and systems to help it adapt to different locations and lighting conditions, to make it bioluminescent, or to convert it into an algal farm.

To produce sustainable biofuels with microalgae, PNNL scientists are using a combination of techniques to maximize the transfer of CO2 from air into algal pond cultures.

For example, gaseous carbon dioxide has been bubbled directly into algal cultivation systems.

For example, gaseous carbon dioxide has been bubbled directly into algal cultivation systems.

Learn about Stone Lab's ongoing research into algal blooms and invasive aquatic species.

Not exact matches

Right now, algae - based protein faces a classic chicken and egg situation — major food companies won't introduce algal ingredients into products because there is no reliable production that can produce agricultural - scale algae in high volumes at low prices.

Some food dispensed in aquaculture operations — especially open water cages — is inevitably not consumed and together with faeces the nutrients released into the surrounding water can cause oxygen depletion and potentially lead to algal blooms.

Venter's team claims that the microbe can be used to produce clean, green algal biofuels; however, what will happen if this microbe escapes into the wild and contaminates non-synthetic algae with its DNA?

Putting into practice techniques that keep contaminants like manure, phosphorus and pesticides — as well as road salt — from running off the land into creeks and streams and leading to bigger problems like algal blooms, bacteria proliferation and other water quality problems.

In summer, melting sea ice releases nutrients into the water, which triggers vast algal blooms.

Fishermen unhappy, scientists baffled The algal blooms are despised by many anglers in eastern Canada, and many have poured money into research.

Hawaii even has an ongoing effort to turn ocean thermal energy conversion technology into a reality, as well as an actual algal agriculture industry — the algae are largely grown for nutraceutical purposes but have also been turned into jet fuel on the mainland by UOP.

The authors find that the main barriers to large - scale deployment of both macro - and micro-algae, include high demands of key resources for algal growth (such as nutrients, water and CO ₂), difficulty in maintaining selected species with high productivity content in outdoor culture, as well as high energy requirements and costs of algal production and conversion into biofuels.

In order to advance the production of algal biofuels into a large - scale, competitive scenario, it is fundamental that the biological processes in these organisms are well understood.»

Illuminating the scope of the problem, a set of maps shows past algal blooms in U.S. coastal waters, and a short essay delves into why the number of blooms seems to be rising — better surveillance and nutrient - laden pollution are suspected.

For years scientists have known that nitrogen and phosphorus, which commonly enter freshwater lakes in chemical fertilizers, play a role in eutrophication — the process by which algal blooms, turbidity, and oxygen deficiencies turn a lake into a dead zone, largely devoid of animal life.

Someone would have to provide expertise in handling viruses — specifically, a virus to serve as a vector, or Trojan horse, to cart algal genes into mammalian cells.

Nutrients would pour down off the increasingly denuded land into the sea, triggering massive algal blooms, which would exhaust the water of oxygen and threaten fish.

The problem: Overflow and sprayed waste can find their way into local wetlands, where fecal matter triggers algal blooms that choke out other aquatic life.

The outcome: algal blooms so massive that ecosystems turn into dead zones, resource - poor realms inhospitable to other life.

«Severe harmful algal bloom predicted for Lake Erie in 2015: Second worst in century predicted: Heavy June rains causing heavy nutrient runoff into lake basin.»

Large - scale experiments where scientists spray iron into the waters, literally fertilizing phytoplankton, have created huge human - made algal blooms.

The group inserted an algal gene that codes for a light - responsive protein into mouse embryonic stem cells.

Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, and colleagues, inserted into mice the gene which codes for the algal protein ChR2, which caused the protein to attach itself to the surface of nerve cells.

Scientists unleashed Metridia longa, a copepod of the northern seas, into tanks of algae and found that an algal cell didn't have to bump into a copepod to be detected.

One high - profile discovery at Palmyra is how rain washes nitrogen - rich droppings from the island's abundant seabird colonies into the sea, where the nutrients create algal blooms.

I'm quite intrigued by their one about manufacturing urea to feed into the oceans to seed algal blooms, which somewhat goes against what I've read about the problems we're storing up synthesising nitrogen fertilizers.

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.

Algal oil: Since you can't take fish oil, and you don't want to rely on inefficient elongation of ALA into the more effective omega - 3s DHA and EPA, you should take algalAlgal oil: Since you can't take fish oil, and you don't want to rely on inefficient elongation of ALA into the more effective omega - 3s DHA and EPA, you should take algalalgal oil.

The plants don't recover enough nutrients from the sludge, so leftover phosphorus and nitrogen trickles into the water, helping to cause algal blooms.

Improve Solar Technology - Design a Biomimic of Photosynthesis Carbon Nanotubes Could Make Artificial Photosynthesis Possible Key Green Algal Genome Provides Insights into Carbon Capture, Better Biofuels Production

And excess nitrogen fertilizer applied to the fields of feed corn grown to satisfy the world's livestock runs off into streams and rivers, sometimes flowing to coastal waters where it creates large algal blooms and low - oxygen «dead zones» where fish can not survive.

During that period, tons of excess nitrogen and phosphorus entered the Mississippi River Basin and drained into the Gulf of Mexico, where the large influx of nutrients has triggered huge algal blooms.

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.

Amid lofty prices for crude oil and rising concerns about global warming, companies are racing to make algal fats into oils that can be turned into fuels.

In addition, DOC can influence algal blooms, phytoplankton productivity, and carbon sequestration in coastal waters, so understanding fluxes in DOC transport into the ocean is critical for evaluating its effects on coastal food webs.

In order to sustain photosynthesis, corals actively pump hydrogen ions (H +) into the vesicles encapsulating their algal symbionts.

The calcite corals first achieved algal symbiosis and came into being 550 million years ago (you are too young to remember) during the Cambrian era, when atmospheric CO2 concentration was 25 times what it is today.

Dead zones form when excessive amounts of nitrogen and phosphorous wash into waterways and spur algal blooms, depleting the water of oxygen and killing fish, shrimp, and other marine life.

To date, renewable hydrocarbon - based fuel substitutes have required the complex, multi-step conversion of algal or other agricultural biomass feedstocks into fuel pre-cursors, and subsequent chemical upgrading.

Geoengineering aims to cool the Earth by methods including spraying sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight, or fertilising the oceans with iron to create carbon - capturing algal blooms.

More on Carbon Capturing Forest of 100000 Artificial Carbon - Capturing Trees Proposed in UK Key Green Algal Genome Provides Insights into Carbon Capture

I received an MS in Ocean Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz a few years ago (in the area of marine nitrogen fluxes); at the time I was a recipient of an NSF Graduate Student Fellowship in microbiology — and I transferred into the Biochemistry department hoping to go into renewable energy research, which seemed to be very interesting, important and useful work — I was particularly interested in algal biochemistry (a great oil source) or fungal enzymes (for cellulose digestion)-- but when I took these proposals to the Dean of Graduate Studies, he shook his head and said «You will never be able to find funding for this kind of work — can't you do something else?»

very limited time window on dumping 100 times more iron than is needed into the sea with even more acid to get a simple algal bloom, some of which [at worst it seems only 1 %] falls to the bottom when the whole lot dies....

In the long run, the excess algal growth can have devastating impacts on the health and age of a fresh water lake or river, causing eutrophication to speed up, where lakes and other water bodies fill in with dead algae and other organic matter and eventually turn into dry land.