Sentences with phrase «kinds of algae»

Most talk of algae and renewable energy on TreeHugger involves liquid biofuels, but a new plan being put forth in Venice hopes to use algae to generate electricity and allow the city take one large step towards being entirely off fossil fuels: The idea is to take two kinds of algae which are brought in attached to ships, Sargassum muticum and Undaria pinnafitida, and use it in a new 40 MW power plant.

I even learned that taurine can be sourced from certain kinds of algae.

This distinction explains why there are so many different kinds of algae — and why the algae family is still hard to pin down.

The kind of algae Smetacek managed to grow were plankton without shells.

A friend uses some kind of algae eating fish to clean his pond.

Not exact matches

They look past the array of empty liquor bottles, some on top of the pond «s thick algae carpet, others poking up through the surface like some kind of strange water plant.

Chinggiskhaania bifurcata is the scientific name of one of the new kinds of multicellular algae recently found preserved as ancient fossils.

But scientists are now turning to the natural sunscreen of algae — which is also found in fish slime — to make a novel kind of shield against the sun's rays that could protect not only people, but also textiles and outdoor materials.

The scientists found two kinds of fossils resembling red algae in uniquely well - preserved sedimentary rocks at Chitrakoot in central India.

If oil - intensive algae were cultivated on a broad scale — the kind of scale now used for other commercial crops — they could eventually replace the 70 percent of the U.S. oil supply used for transportation in the form of jet fuel, gasoline, and diesel, according to Weeks.

Ignoring all the evidence that they grew on land, Carruthers declared the organism to be an enormous alga — a kind of seaweed, in other words.

«But because we have complete control of genetics now, we have all the technology to make [algae into] some kind of fancy photosynthetic machine.»

«Essentially, if we were to use the hydrocarbon oils from this alga to be a renewable fuel source, there would be no need to change any kind of infrastructure for making the fuel.

After filling each with 800 liters of pond water, they added two species of snails that spread the schistosomiasis parasite, algae for the snails to eat, and two kinds of predators — crayfish and water bugs.

In the first trial of its kind, doctors injected DNA from light - sensitive algae into a blind woman's eye in an attempt to restore her vision.

«What we set out to look at now is the kind of molecular change that happens when the salamander cells and green algae cells are together.»

To construct a long - term temperature record for the Horn of Africa, the researchers analyzed the sediment layers for chemicals called alkenones made by a particular kind of marine algae.

Dave Asprey: Yeah, because you ate some kind of grain that was desiccated with it, or because it's in your water, because they allow it to be dumped into the river to get rid of algae.

And if you want to make sure that you have the right kinds of fat, you might also follow Dr. Greger's recommendation of consuming an algae based DHA / EPA pill and making sure you do not eat any oils (which if you follow the 21 day eating plan, you will not).

I have crazy puffy eyes in the morning (we're talking beady - eyed Donald Trump kind of puffy here, people), but the algae mask did what I thought only a few hours and a couple cups of coffee could do.

The first thing to discover is the scent it has: it smells very strongly of algae (it is 100 % kelp, so do not expect anything else:D) and if you are sensitive towards these kinds of scents you will probably have a hard time to leave this on your face.

This mask is comprised with three kinds of pure clay, and enhanced with its key ingredient: red algae extract.

You encounter all kinds of sea life, sunken ruins, forests of algae, and vast canyons.

Consider the possibility that not just millions, but billions face disastrous consequences from the likes of (including but not limited to): Sandy (and other hybrid and out - of - season storms enhanced by the earth's circulatory eccentricities and warmer oceans); the drought in progress; wildfires; floods (just last week, Argentina had 16 inches of rain in 2 hours *); derechos; increased cold and snow in the north as the Arctic melts and cracks up, breaking up the Arctic circulation and sending cold out of what was previously largely a contained system, and losing its own consistent cold, seriously interfering with the Jet Stream, pollution of multiple kinds such as in China, the increase of algae and the like in our oceans as they heat, and food and water shortages.

For example, in coastal areas, anomalous temperatures (either warm or cool) can favor one organism in an ecosystem over another, causing populations of one kind of bacteria, algae, or fish to thrive or decline.

They come up with all kinds of hypothetical feedback mechanisms involving more natural aerosol emissions in response to global warming: Dimethylsulfide from marine phytoplankton (although a very intriguing possibility, this has never been confirmed to be a significant feedback mechanism, and there is ample evidence to the contrary, which is omitted from the report), biological aerosols (idem), carbonyl sulfide (idem), nitrous oxide (idem), and iodocompounds (idem), about which they write the following: «Iodocompounds — created by marine algae — function as cloud condensation nuclei, which help create new clouds that reflect more incoming solar radiation back to space and thereby cool the planet.»

The quality of the algae depends on the song of the singer, and it's a kind of «sonic enhancement of food where different pitches and frequencies make food taste either bitter or sweet.»

- sea lice, algae blooms and other parasites threaten all kinds of wildlife.