Posted by Stella Kin
NSF Grant to NC State U. for Algae Biofuel from Dunaliella
Finally a bit of a breakthrough, given how secretive all the universities and companies are being with their algae-oil research. I think we could consider this as our algae of choice. It's potentially oil-secreting, North Carolina State University are currently studying it, it's a well researched strain, used to find ways in which to improve biomass and oil production, and it's already being commercially used. I'll comb over the previous research to find other references to it. If we combine this with either one of the manufacturing processes already discussed or use the solar panel idea that Ramachandra proposes, I think we'll have something very interesting.
On the negative side, I don't think it's a diatom.
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Also
Microbes reprogrammed to ooze oil for renewable biofuel
In this case cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) but it doesn't say which.
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