C-NET's Martin LaMonica writes that Linc Energy and Bio Clean Coal will create a prototype bioreactor (cost: $1 million) that will grow the algae that eat the carbon from the coal plant's emissions.
There’s also a pump which captures polluted air and bubbles it up through the water to feed the algae. The LIQUID3 bioreactors are built with an eye to civic duty, as well. They’re constructed ...
In the next phase they will be adding algae to the system to test growth ... Green Star has combined some elements of a closed bioreactor system with a low-cost open pond setup.
Scientists have spent decades genetically modifying the bacterium Escherichia coli and other microbes to convert carbon dioxide into useful biological products. Most methods require additional carbon ...
Back at the algae plant, I climb onto an elevated platform, where I’m surrounded by noisy modular units called photo-bioreactors, where thousands upon thousands of tiny red and blue LED lights ...
“The department recently saw an installation a new 400 litre photobioreactor at the Arthur Willis Environment Centre (AWEC), for those that don’t know a photobioreactor is a bioreactor that utilizes a ...