Missouri to use C02 from power plants to grow algae
Who would have thought it but it seems that my home State of Missouri is really taking the lead in algae to biofuel research. Today, researchers have announced that they will start a project that will use carbon dioxide from power plant emissions to grow algae.
Missouri power companies and universities are teaming up on a new green power initiative.
A research project announced Friday will seek to reduce carbon dioxide gas emissions from power plants by using the flue gas to grow algae.
Oil from the algae could later be used as a biofuel.
The project will be conducted at a Central Electric Power Cooperative plant near Jefferson City. It’s being done in conjunction with Missouri University of Science and Technology and Lincoln University.
This is one of the benefits of using algae because now the carbon power plants produce will actually be worth money to the power companies. This could potentially mean that these power plants would be less likely to release carbon into the atmosphere. Instead, they could sell it to these algae farms.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
[…] past week, I wrote about how a power plant located in Jefferson City, Missouri was going to begin using it’s emissions to feed algae growth. Well it seems that this process has already been happening around the country. Scientists at the […]