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Algae to the rescue

Discussion in 'Environmental Discussion' started by etyler88, Jan 17, 2006.

  1. etyler88

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    Interesting article. Thanks for the link.
     
    #2 San_Carlos_Jeff, Jan 17, 2006
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    Sounds promising.
    Are the algae "fed" anything besides emissions?
    Are any dangerous chemicals removed from either the bio-deisel and/or green flakes?
     
    #4 Kiloran, Jan 17, 2006
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    Slightly resurrecting this thread, but I had actually been up on
    the roof of MIT cogen and got a pic of the pilot rig in question
    just a couple of days before the original post.
    http://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/pix/algae.jpg
    which doesn't capture the gentle bubbling effect up through the
    tubes. This is currently taking about 1% of the plant's total
    output, and would need a heckuvalot more land area to handle
    all of it...
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    _H*
     
    #5 hobbit, Feb 7, 2006
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