Saturday, September 13, 2008

Missouri Univs Partner with Coal Power Plants for Oil frm Algae

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Several Missouri universities and electric companies plan to use the carbon dioxide pollution from coal-fired power plants to grow algae for biofuel. The project at the Central Electric Power Cooperative's plants east of Jefferson City is starting out small. Only a relatively little portion of its carbon dioxide emissions will be diverted from its flues and pumped into pools of sunlit water teeming with algae.

Researchers at Lincoln University in Jefferson City already have been growing algae in labs while others at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla have been experimenting with extracting biofuels from it.

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