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Imagine using algae to fuel and feed our world.
Research is underway and vast ponds are under construction to test what has been described as 'the world's best hope for a replacement for fossil fuel'.
Those are the words of Professor Susan Pond, a former managing director of pharmaceutical company Johnson and Johnson.
There are 40,000 species of micro-algae and they are the world's fastest-growing plants.
"They're everywhere. They account for half the biomass, they take up millions of tonnes of CO2, they can clean up polluted water, and they love to make oil that can be made into fuel," says Professor Pond.
Professor Pond is now researching biofuels at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, but it is her past experience in cutting-edge research in human health that leads her to believe that a solution to the looming oil crisis can be found.
abc.net.au»
Imagine using algae to fuel and feed our world.
Research is underway and vast ponds are under construction to test what has been described as 'the world's best hope for a replacement for fossil fuel'.
Those are the words of Professor Susan Pond, a former managing director of pharmaceutical company Johnson and Johnson.
There are 40,000 species of micro-algae and they are the world's fastest-growing plants.
"They're everywhere. They account for half the biomass, they take up millions of tonnes of CO2, they can clean up polluted water, and they love to make oil that can be made into fuel," says Professor Pond.
Professor Pond is now researching biofuels at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, but it is her past experience in cutting-edge research in human health that leads her to believe that a solution to the looming oil crisis can be found.
abc.net.au»