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DESCRIPTION:With environmental, economic, and political concerns about petroleum-based 
 fuels at an all time high, biofuels is experiencing a huge boom, with the 
 Bay Area at the center of that boom. With buzz falling on corn-based 
 ethanol, the shift has been towards biodiesels. One of the hottest trends 
 is toward algael based biofuels, even from big oil companies that are now 
 putting tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars into algal biofuel 
 research.\n\nLike most plants, algae have mastered a process called 
 photosynthesis. Basically, algae act like little factories. They use the 
 energy in sunlight to pull damaging carbon dioxide out of the air. Then 
 they break down water to manufacture that CO2 into sugars and fats, and 
 spew oxygen into the air as a waste product. But for the algae, those 
 sugars and fats are what it's all about. They use most of these raw 
 materials to assemble more algae, lots more. However, they can overeat sun 
 energy and store the extra energy as oily fat - one that we could be used 
 as fuel.\n\nThe Department of Energy sponsored an Algal Biofuels Technology 
 Roadmap workshop last year to discuss the basic research that is needed to 
 demonstrate whether or not algal biofuels can be commercially viable. In 
 the search for alternatives to gasoline, are algae the answer? Biologist 
 Kris Niyogi of UC Berkeley will offer some answers.\n\nAbout Kris 
 Niyogi:\nKris Niyogi is a professor of algal biology in the Department of 
 Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and 
 a faculty scientist in the Physical Biosciences Division of Lawrence 
 Berkeley National Laboratory. His areas of expertise are algal molecular 
 genetics, genomics, and photosynthesis. Since joining the faculty at 
 UC-Berkeley in 1997, he has received a Presidential Early Career Award for 
 Scientists and Engineers, the Melvin Calvin Award from the International 
 Society of Photosynthesis Research, and the Charles Albert Shull Award from 
 the American Society of Plant Biologists.\n 
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SUMMARY:Pond Scum to Power: Algae Fuel
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