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Re: Algae could be a new green power source

From jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
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Subject Re: Algae could be a new green power source
Date 2015-11-24 20:01 +0000
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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Algae could be a new green power source
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-11-algae-green-power-source.html
> 
>> In a study published in the journal Technology, a team led by
>> Concordia engineering professor Muthukumaran Packirisamy describe
>> their invention: a power cell that harnesses electrical energy from
>> the photosynthesis and respiration of blue-green algae.
>>
>> Why plants? Because the energy is already there.
>>
>> "Both photosynthesis and respiration, which take place in plants
>> cells, involve electron transfer chains. By trapping the electrons
>> released by blue-green algae during photosynthesis and respiration,
>> we can harness the electrical energy they produce naturally," says
>> Packirisamy.
>>
>> Why blue-green algae? Because it's everywhere.
>>
>> Also known as cyanobacteria, blue-green algae are the most prosperous
>> microorganisms on earth, evolutionarily speaking. They occupy a broad
>> range of habitats across all latitudes. And they've been here
>> forever: the planet's early fauna and flora owe their makeup to
>> cyanobacteria, which produced the oxygen that ultimately allowed
>> higher life forms to flourish.
 
Yawn.

People have been fucking around with this idea for years with zero
practical results to date.
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Algae could be a new green power source Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 13:15 -0600
  A blue green power source Bret Cahill <bretcahill@aol.com> - 2015-11-24 11:25 -0800
    Re: A blue green power source benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 14:52 -0500
  Re: Algae could be a new green power source jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-24 20:01 +0000
  Re: Algae could be a new green power source gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-11-24 17:34 -0600

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