Sentences with phrase «on algae»

But a new generation of biofuels based on algae might just change all that.

However, an estimated 30 percent of current production on algae farms is lost each year due to pond crashes.

Alternatively, by allowing it to feed on algae as well as rubbish on the seabed, it could be a way to take in a range of nutrients.

In addition to eating mosquito larvae, mosquitofish prey on other insect larvae, amphibian larvae, and zooplankton such as Daphnia, tiny crustaceans that graze on algae in freshwater ecosystems.

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Current research ranges from work on algae strains that can turn sunlight into hydrogen fuel to the inkjet - style printing of photovoltaic cells — a technique that could greatly cut solar - energy costs if it worked on a large scale.

And 13 - year - olds Mitchell Haverty and Angus Fung talk about their research on algae as alternative fuel.

I will be doing more on the algae biofuel in the future.

Algae has been used by tens of millions of people in Asia for over 50 years — and even Olympic athletes and NASA astronauts have relied on algae for decades as a way to pack a lot of nutrients into a very small volume of food — since algae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetables).

Corals depend on algae that live inside their tissues.

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Query, if CO2 increased terrestrial vegetative growth, does it have an impact on algae growth in the far more important marine ecosystems.

Reliant on the algae for food via photosynthesis, the jellyfish make a daily migration across the lake, following the arc of the sun.

Parrotfish munching on algae ingest coral and then eliminate the rocky substrate, creating island - building grade sediment in places like the Maldives.

So it goes with coral reef fish dining on algae in French Polynesia, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.

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.

However, there are also changes in the albedo of snow due to growth of biological communities based on algae when nutrients are deposited on snow.

During the night, just as everyone was thinking about sleeping, two massive sea turtles started swimming around the boat, feeding on the algae growing on the underside of the hull, then surfacing to take deep noisy breaths.

If you look on top of the reef and in the dividing channels, you can find the a wide range of diverse wildlife, including Parrotfish, who graze on the algae patches that mantle much of the reef top.

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If you struggle to chow down on the algae usually then try this smoothie; once blended with sweet bananas, fresh cucumbers and creamy coconut it'll really transform the way you view it.

The chemical extraction using hexanes on the algae and fungi from which the amino acids are sourced leads to the potential of hexane being present in the formula and this is what leads to parents questioning whether they want them included in the formula.

Further sleuthing revealed Pseudo-nitzschia australis remains and domoic acid in the bay's anchovies, which feed on algae by filtering water through their gills.

The national labs, and Sandia in particular with its expertise on algae predators, are uniquely suited for this research.

Ayu, or sweetfish, is a freshwater species that lives on algae and moss, which give its flesh a watermelon scent.

These researchers believe that the best biofuels will bypass crop plants — cutting out the middleman entirely — relying instead on algae and a few microorganisms that have a plantlike knack for directly and efficiently turning sunlight into energy through photosynthesis.

Last year, at a meeting in Dublin, experts on algae said the Japanese kelp is unlikely to offer the creatures that live in Europe's kelp beds exactly the same habitat as the native species.

«There are 2,500 species of diatoms in India alone,» says Balasubramanian, who is writing his doctoral thesis on these algae.

Though the species spends a lot of its time feeding and spawning on an algae - covered rock shelf right at the surface, divers must descend more than 100 feet in two - person teams to count the farthest - flung fish using a standardized search pattern that has been in use since the 1970s.

Previously, he was Professor of Biology at the University of North Dakota USA for 21 years where he taught undergraduate and post-graduate courses on algae.

The majority of these fish are vegetarians, feeding primarily on algae encrusted on the rocks.

At low tide, marine iguanas graze on the algae beds; there's a colony of fur sea lions which you can observe up - close.

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The krill feed on an algae called phytoplankton that grows on the underside of sea ice.

Last month in Hampton Roads, it demonstrated a boat that operates on algae - based biodiesel.

My columns have covered LEDs, solar power, wind power, demand - response, green chemistry, smart grid innovation, water technologies, geothermal, biofuels (with a big focus on algae), electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, nuclear, wave and tidal power, biogas, waste reduction, energy storage, advanced materials... you name it.

In 2007, Amy won the Folio Eddie for excellence in magazine editorial for her feature on algae as a feedstock for biofuel, which was published in Sustainable Industries magazine.

Coral bleaching comes about as a result of abnormal sea conditions (such as warmer waters), which cause heat stress on the algae that lives inside the coral.

Menhaden filter - feed nearly exclusively on algae, the most abundant forage in the world, and are prolifically good at converting that algae into omega - 3 fatty acids and other important proteins and oils.

Still, our dream transitional car (while we wait for batteries and hypercapacitors to be good enough for electric cars) would be an aerodynamic plug - in diesel - electric series hybrid running on algae - biodiesel and recharged with renewable electricity.

Yowsa, that's a lot of companies working on algae.

Parrotfish of all shapes, sizes and varieties graze on the algae patches that mantle much of the reef top.

«It depends on algae that lives in its tissue to give it food.

Pesticides pose by far the greatest risk to fish and invertebrates, with weedkillers having the biggest impact on algae.