Sentences with phrase «out of algae»

Startup Sapphire Energy, which uses synthetic biology to make a green crude out of algae, announced on Monday that it's raising $ 144 million in a Series C round from investors including agriculture company Monsanto.

She learned how to build wind turbines and solar - powered go - karts, and she made biofuel out of algae.

I love everything that is made out of algae, haha.

To draw lipids out of algae, scientists must starve the algae of nitrogen.

«If you just squeeze the oil out of algae, what you basically get is vegetable oil, which you can convert to diesel,» says Stephen Mayfield, a molecular biologist at the University of California, San Diego.

Not exact matches

Thus mini-nuclear reactors, algae - based fuels, and various other exciting schemes are routinely trotted out as the «source of unlimited energy in the near future,» always with the implicit faith that the process can be scaled up from the laboratory to a global scale with only modest difficulties.

It is understood the vehicle lost grip on a thick blanket of algae coating the pier's slipway and slid into the water; the victims were on a day out from nearby Derry.

A city spokesman on Friday said there was no threat to the drinking water «at this time» because the algae blooms were near the shore and the intake pipes are out toward the middle of the lake.

Touching your time machine down on Earth at a random point in the planet's history, roughly nine times out of 10 you would only find single - celled life or algae and would risk suffocation in the oxygen - starved open air.

WINDBLOWN dust from a dried - out African lake that was once the size of California is nourishing rainforests in the Amazon and algae in the Atlantic.

At least at the level of multicellular creatures — fungi, animals, plants, algae — scientists are pretty sure that DNA - based life forms did beat out their competition (just look around).

To achieve their grander ambitions, such as creating algae capable of churning out fuel for cars, genetic engineers are now trying to make far more sweeping changes.

The addition of seawater might cause algae to grow out of control, choking out microorganisms better suited to a saltier environment, or turning the water red.

Using frozen samples of Nannochloropsis oculata, a type of single - celled ocean - dwelling algae, Dina Pasini (University of Kent) set out to test the conditions which early life would have had to survive if it did indeed travel through space.

And it's most likely that some combination of factors, including poisonous algae perhaps, helped wipe out 90 percent of all marine life some 250 million years ago, for example.

Continental jet 516 — a two - engine Boeing 737 - 800 — completed a two hour test flight out of Houston today with one engine powered by a 50 - 50 blend of regular petroleum - based jet fuel and a synthetic alternative made from Jatropha and algae.

The E. coli directly secretes the resulting biodiesel, which then floats to the top of a fermentation vat, so there is neither the necessity for distillation or other purification processes nor the need, as in biodiesel from algae, to break the cell to get the oil out.

«Water coming out of sewage treatment plants has nutrients — nitrates, which encourage algae to grow,» Boeing's Daggett notes.

For example, scientists with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography figured out how to curb an enzyme that breaks down the lipids in algae that are crucial for making biofuel.

To find out what eats what in this ecosystem, fisheries ecologists Jason Turner and Jay Rooker of Texas A&M University in Galveston first analyzed the composition of fatty acids in Sargassum, a green algae that grows on seaweed fronds, and phytoplankton — microscopic organisms that photosynthesize like plants.

The alga now carpets 4600 - and - counting hectares of sea floor, wiping out native grasses from Spain to Croatia.

«Both malaria and Helicosporidium started out as alga and ended up as intracellular parasites preying on animals, but they have done it in very different ways,» says Keeling, director of the Centre for Microbial Diversity and Evolution at UBC and a Senior Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Out of the vast diversity of plankton in the oceans, the worst offenders are a few species of diatoms, dinoflagellates and cyanobacteria, collectively called harmful algae.

Much of Krejci's research so far has focused on trying to work out how the algae generate the crystals, with an eye to making the process even more strontium - selective.

She moves a short way upstream and does it all over again, scouring algae off rock, washing silt out of the eddies, aerating gravel.

Eventually, the fertilizing effects of these nutrients in surface waters can fuel the growth of algae that ultimately suck most of the oxygen out of large patches of coastal waters, creating what are colloquially termed dead zones (see Limiting Dead Zones).

Sara figured out how to boost algae oil levels, a trait that could make the photosynthetic organisms more attractive as a source of biofuels.

Chlorarachniophytes can also carry out photosynthesis; they are one of two groups of protozoa that, at some point in their history, have acquired chloroplasts by engulfing a green alga.

When researchers conceived of turning algae into diesel fuel three decades ago, the idea sounded like something out of the old sci - fi movie Soylent Green.

Its method also relies on natural sunlight, but with a twist: instead of moving the sunlight to the algae, GreenFuel rotates the algae in and out of the sunlight, a process called photomodulation, explains GreenFuel co-founder Isaac Berzin.

In it Lovelock laid out his daring idea that our planet is a single, self - regulating system, dubbed Gaia, wherein «the entire range of living matter on Earth, from whales to viruses, and from oaks to algae, could be regarded as constituting a single living entity, capable of manipulating the Earth's atmosphere to suit its overall needs.»

The scientists first genetically modified E. coli to consume sugar and secrete engine - grade biodiesel, which can float to the top of a fermentation vat — no need for distilling, purifying or breaking cells open to get the oil out, as is the case for making biodiesel from algae.

Fleming's work took place at minus 321 degrees Fahrenheit, but similar effects appeared three years later in experiments with marine algae carried out at room temperature by a team led by Gregory Scholes, a chemist at the University of Toronto in Ontario.

As it turns out, the mutant alga also exhibited aberrant organization of cellular membranes when maintained in the dark, but did not exhibit them when maintained in the light.

In fact, the authors wrote, if not for the algal munching of these grazers, algae could blanket the seagrasses, blocking out sunlight and preventing them from photosynthesizing, which would ultimately kill the seagrasses.

This leaves ecosystems vulnerable to dramatic changes, such as when a single species, like certain algae, grows out of control and forms toxic blooms, like the red tides common off the coast of Florida and Mexico.

«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.»

The causes are all human: overfishing wiping out key species, warmer waters from a warming world, dying coral which supported millions of species, pollution like fertilizers causing deadly algae blooms and dead zones,...

But Park and his co-authors point out that thicker layers of algae on the sea surface would prevent sunlight from penetrating deeper into the water.

They have discovered a previously unknown protein in algae that grabs an essential but scarce nutrient out of seawater, vitamin B12.

Exploiting habitats that are often or mostly out of water required new symbiotic relationships to contain and move water, including the fusion of some fungi and algae to create lichen in communities with bacteria that survive extreme desiccation on land while breaking down rock into soil, and the association of mycorrhizae fungi and the root tissue of new vascular plants — culminating in trees that pump water high into the air — to exchange mineral nutrients (e.g., phosphorus) and usable «fixed» nitrogen from the atmosphere for photosynthetic products.

Regarding the possible role hydrogen sulfide in the major extinctions you might want to check out another book, one which places it in the context of the methane clathrate gun, the destruction of the coccolithophores which help to maintain an oxygenated atmosphere by ocean acidification, the role of algae blooms, etc...

Mishler points out that algae are responsible for the brightly colored plumes that can be observed on giant clams or the vibrant appearance of coral.

After all, surface mats of duckweed can block out sunlight just as the algae can.

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.

It's also worth pointing out that, while neither algae is a great source of vitamin B12, the type found in chlorella is more bioavailable (the body can absorb it more easily).

Check out what Chef Caroline Fey of The City Kitchen in San Francisco has to say about Thrive ® Algae Oil:

I don't want to have to swallow an extra Algae omega 3 or Tsp of flax seed to level that ratio out..

If you want the benefits of algae like Spirulina then it is best to source out the pure product in powder or tablet form.

And I know you might be a little hesitant to add Spirulina (i.e. creepy dark green algae powder) to your smoothies, I get it, but hear me out - Spirulina is one of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet!