Engineering algae to make fuel instead of sugar

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 06:36 in Physics & Chemistry

In pursuing cleaner energy there is such a thing as being too green. Unicellular microalgae, for instance, can be considered too green. In a paper in a special energy issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley describe a method for using microalgae for making biofuel...

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