Chris Gerards of ALGBio hopes to scrape success from nature's slime by converting it into a viable source of biofuel. He's growing a local strain of freshwater algae and researching ways to develop it at the Waddell Mariculture Center, which is run by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. Full Story »
Posted by Mike LaBonte
Very interesting report on the potentials of algae to serve as a biofuel. I leave it not completely convinced, though. I need to see more verification. Broader, more diverse sourcing would have helped, as would citing an independent study.
This story covers the beginning stages on research, so more info would be needed to draw conclusions. The 2 sources give an immediate story and one context viewpoint. Oddly, one source seems to contradict himself on the biofuel yield of an acre of land. I can't agree that "researchers and scientists are tight-lipped about their work", and I think other sources should have been easy to find. But algae is still a big story and this makes useful contributions.
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