Collaborate Disseminate
Beaches were temporarily closed in Miami and Palm Beach this week as Florida’s algae bloom spread. Continue reading Toxic Red Tide Spreads From Florida’s Gulf Coast Into Atlantic Waters
For those of us who grow up around natural swimming holes, algae are the reason we have to wash after taking a dip. Swimmer’s itch or just being covered in green goop is not an attractive way to spend an afternoon. Lumping all algae together is not fair, some of it is nasty but some of it is delicious and humans have been eating it for generations.
If you are thinking that cases of algae cuisine are not widespread and that algae does not sound appealing, you are not alone. It is a tough sell, like convincing someone to try …read more
In case you missed it, prices on 3D printers have hit an all time low. The hardware is largely standardized and the software is almost exclusively open source, so it makes sense that eventually somebody was going to start knocking these things out cheap. There are now many 3D printers available for less than $300 USD, and a few are even dipping under the $200 mark. Realistically, this is about as cheap as these machines are ever going to get.
A startup by the name of 3D Cultures has recently started capitalizing on the availability of these inexpensive high-precision three …read more
Continue reading Cheap 3D Printers Make Cheaper(er) Bioprinters
TerraVia says the company was too quick to blame the algae products. Continue reading Soylent Blamed an Algae Product for Its Customers Illnesses and It Backfired
The food startup is blaming “whole algal flour” for its recent outbreak of maladies. Continue reading Soylent Blames Algae Product For Customers’ Violent Illnesses
Reefs on reefs on reefs. Continue reading There’s a Huge Geological Structure Hiding Behind the Great Barrier Reef
Supposedly, writes [Severin], algae is a super food, can be used as biofuel, and even be made into yoga mats. So he’s built an algal reactor at Munich Maker Lab, to try to achieve a decent algal yield.
You might expect that sourcing live algae would be as simple as scraping up a bit of green slime from a nearby pond, but that yields an uncertain mix of species. [Severin] wanted Chlorella algae for his experiment because its high fat content makes it suitable for biodiesel experiments, so had to source his culture from an aquatic shop.
The reactor takes …read more
