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'You may not cook with this sugar, but from a biofuel point of view, it's very sweet, ' says the US media.
Helio Biosysysnings in the San Francisco Bay Area has patented a group of three algae-like single-celled organics.
that when these three single-celled organisms grow together, they can produce large amounts of sugar for biofuel production.
Sandia National Laboratory is helping the company research to make the large-scale cultivation of these organisms a success.
demand for clean renewable energy has led to a lot of research on algae, the U.S. Daily Science website reported on August 21.
algae are an ideal source of biofuels because they do not compete with crops for soil, water or other resources.
generally speaking, the water suitable for algae farming is not suitable for agricultural production.
algae farms are designed to produce large quantities of biomass to convert them into fuels, chemicals or other biological products.
contrast, Helio Biosysysing will produce biofuels from an organic compound called cyanobacteria.
was mistaken for algae until the early 20th century.
like algae, cyanobacteria are found in water and have been mistakenly referred to as "blue-green algae."
but unlike algae, these marine cyanobacteria release large amounts of sugar directly into the water they grow.
, a biochemist at Sandia National Laboratory in NewTown, says typical algae activity can produce 1 g of biomass per liter of water.
small trials of blue bacteria have shown that they can produce 4 to 7 grams of sugar per liter of biomass at concentrations almost seven times that of typical algae.
, the sugar yield of growing blue bacteria is higher than that of biomass.
is simpler and therefore cheaper to filter sugar out of water than to extract biomass from large amounts of algae.
sugars are more easily converted into chemicals and fuels than biomass.
addition, blue bacteria do not need extra fertilizer to release sugar.
these cost-saving qualities will give biofuels an edge in the competition with oil.
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