• Question: which is the best growing material for algae

    Asked by gamergeek2002 to Carolyn, Peter, Richard, Sara, Siana on 18 Nov 2015.
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      Carolyn Nielsen answered on 18 Nov 2015:


      I wish I could remember this as I did a long group project on this during my undergraduate degree! We were doing a class called Biological Enterprise, which is a lot like Young Enterprise that you can do in some secondary schools.. Our ‘business’ was looking at producing massive amounts of algae to use as a biofuel. So we spent a long time looking at algae bioreactors (big tanks where you can grow algae)- there is a whole industry around this!

      I think it was a combination of a certain amount of air circulation through water containing a combination of minerals… This is the problem with studying science for a long time, you start to forget the things you learned at the beginning!

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