Sandia using RapTOR technology for understanding algal pond collapse. [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 621.48 Nuclear engineering
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. National Nuclear Security Administration ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2010
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: 5 p. : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 265597
• Chủ đề: 1. 09 biomass fuels; 2. 54 environmental sciences

Tóm tắt

As industry continues to find a profitable way to meet the nation's alternative energy objectives, more and more start-up companies, it seems, are growing production ponds of algae. Algae are widely viewed as a potential source of renewable fuel, but the technology to mass-produce fuel-grade algae is still in the early stages. A major roadblock is the inability to produce large amounts of the greenish, chlorophyll-containing organisms.