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Article: TURNING ALGAE INTO ENERGY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- October 27, 2009
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Oct. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following press release:
As part of a project to create alternative sources of energy, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are cultivating green algae that holds promise as a new supply of biofuel.
"People have been growing algae for centuries for food supplements for use by man and animals," said Cecelia Williams, project lead. "It now has the potential to supply our energy needs too."
Beginning in the 1950s, the Department of Energy recognized algae as a potential feedstock for energy and biofuels and funded the Aquatic Species Program between 1978 and 1996 with $25 million to ...