Category Archives: Biotechnology
HERO – Ecology of Algae Biofuels – Jonathon Sherman (12/1/11)
With fossil fuels being many times the annual net primary production, replacing it will require greatly intensifying biofuel technologies and production in order to minimize the land footprint. Algae are of interest thanks to their efficiency of production, with all their tissues being dedicated to growth. Soybeans would require several states area to replace fifty […]
Making Joules: Heliocultures for Alternative Fuels
A seminar at UCSD, presented by Joule, presents a systems approach to helioculture which utilizes organism engineering, reactor design, and helioculture processing towards the production of a desired product. Beginning with organism engineering, this starts with finding an organism which will be optimal for the process. Joule presents cyanobacterium as the ideal production system, given their […]
