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January 20, 2012

Can Seaweed Keep Your Car Running?

Christi Sodano, Medill Reports


Medill Reports

Could kelp– a type of brown seaweed —fuel your gas tank?

Researchers are bringing us one step closer to this alternative energy source with a process that uses a bacterium commonly found in our gut to metabolize brown algae into ethanol.

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TAGGED: automobiles, microbes, seaweed, biofuels, kelp

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