May 14, 2009 — Take some NASA-developed plastic membranes, add algae and municipal waste water and float it out to sea. What have you got? An environmentally friendly alternative to U.S. dependence on foreign oil, says one NASA scientist.
Jonathan Trent, a researcher at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., sees algae farmed at sea as a win-win-win scenario: The plants are oil-rich and easy to grow; sea-based nurseries leave land free for food production; and the process should take out more carbon from the atmosphere than what it puts in.
As an added bonus, the system purifies waste water now being pumped into the ocean.
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This post was written by Anders Riel Muller on June 10, 2009
