algae based hydrogen Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:53:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Type of Photobioreactor Produces Cheaper and Cleaner Algae Biofuel https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-type-photobioreactor-produces-cheaper-cleaner-algae-biofuel-20130930/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-type-photobioreactor-produces-cheaper-cleaner-algae-biofuel-20130930/#respond Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:53:50 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=42052 Proterro, one of the leaders in biofuel production, has developed a method to make the precious energy resource without the need of excessive energy or water use, by producing the single sugar sucrose from cyanobacteria. These bacteria, also known as blue-green algae, are grown in a photobioreactor, patented by the makers, which cuts down the […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-type-photobioreactor-produces-cheaper-cleaner-algae-biofuel-20130930/feed/ 0 42052 New Method for Extracting Hydrogen from Green Algae https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-method-for-extracting-hydrogen-from-green-algae-20090406/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-method-for-extracting-hydrogen-from-green-algae-20090406/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:24:25 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3270 Analyzing a single-celled green alga, researchers have found a fermentation process which was not known before that can revolution hydrogen production. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a soil or fresh water single-celled alga, produces its own energy by fermentation when it has no source of oxygen.

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