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.
Large - scale experiments where scientists spray iron into the waters, literally fertilizing phytoplankton, have created huge human -
made algal blooms.
Unfortunately, climate change and nutrient runoff are
making algal blooms even worse.
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A tree's leaf, a blade of grass, a single
algal cell: all
make fuel from the simple combination of water, sunlight and carbon dioxide through the miracle of photosynthesis.
Preliminary research hints that ocean acidification may promote some types of
algal blooms that
make people and animals sick
A study of 22 different types of lichens revealed 10 included fungi that had lost a gene for energy production,
making them completely dependent on their
algal partner.
In most plants, the enzyme works very slowly, but the
algal version
made the plant more efficient at photosynthesis and
made it grow faster, researchers report in Nature.
The fungal partner in many lichen jettison a gene that's critical for energy production —
making them completely dependent on their
algal associates.
The visible
algal blooms, coming months later and
making headlines, are really confined to the top surface layers of the lake.
Overfishing also
makes the ocean more prone to toxic
algal blooms, jellyfish blooms and dead zones.
As time passed, Lee
made another observation: the lake suffered a severe
algal bloom.
Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and Gettysburg College found that this symbiosis, the only known example that includes a vertebrate species, puts stress on
algal cells, changing the way they
make energy, but does not seem to negatively impact salamander cells.
Burleson identifies and analyzes toxins created by the «red tide» phenomena — an
algal bloom that looks red or brown and can
make oysters and shellfish toxic to eat.
Earlier this year, scientists found an invasion in the
making: A sea slug that regularly feasts on algae was found to have absorbed
algal genes — the ones used to do photosynthesis.
While the
algal rubisco
makes the photosynthesis more efficient, the tobacco plant wasn't completely engineered to mimic the whole process the bacteria use.
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They calculated
algal growth accounted for approximately 70 percent of the variation in the light reflectance data,
making it the dominant contributor to the phenomenon.
This week, the new Harmful
Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act, S. 1057, is
making progress.
The study also claims that
algal fuels — still an exciting prospect for many clean techies — is too far off from feasibility to
make it practical for the military's investment.
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.
This extra
algal growth is not only unappealing to look at, but can also
make the water smell bad and
make it unsuitable for swimming.
Algal biofuels, such as Sapphire Energy's much talked about green crude, are still years away from
making a significant contribution to the market.
In a news feature story on
algal blooms that he wrote for this class, Cole took a very complex scientific topic and
made it understandable for the general public.