Algae Research to come to St. Louis
Looks like several research centers in St. Louis will be receiving some money in the sums of millions of dollars to conduct important algae biofuel research.
St. Louis institutions will get millions of dollars to accelerate developments in alternative energy including trailblazing work to produce fuel from algae, the Energy Department has announced.
The new federal effort, the Energy Frontier Research Center Awards, will give $2 million to $5 million annually for five years to 46 projects across the country.
The St. Louis-based Center for Advanced Biofuel Systems at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center will explore increasing the efficiency of photosynthesis in plants like algae. Algae generates an oil that can be converted into a biodiesel fuel.
You know what this means? I will hopefully be able to go see some of the research myself at these labs over the summer! Yes!
This is shaping up to be a really good summer.
[...] wrote about St. Louis receiving funds for algae research in April but now we have a little more information about how much and what the money will be going towards. [...]