Volunteers have been at the area with grass rakes to help clear it of algae.
Algae typically do not produce oil under normal conditions, but they do when they are stressed.
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The oysters happily grazed on the algae, but there was just too much of it.
These algae produce more oil than they would in the sun, the company claims.
That also means that the other natural places to cultivate algae are power stations.
They also absorb pollutants that can cause algae blooms and help clear the water.
The Environment Agency found the algae, which could cause sickness or skin rashes, in Windermere.
But algae began creeping back in the mid-1990s, and the blooms have gotten progressively bigger.
However, on closer inspection, the report is in fact very positive about growing algae.
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It was this very same blue-green algae that created the oxygen they are now breathing.
Unlike other algae blooms, red tides are not caused by pollution, the wildlife service said.
In that case, zooplankton populations would rise and the numbers of algae would fall.
Microscopic algae, the earliest living organisms, drew carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and expelled oxygen.
Researchers hope to produce one of the seven algae in the baths in commercially viable quantities.
As the author happened to be an expert on that algae, he took immediate note.
The fuel, known as Biodiesel B20, is made from 20% algae and 80% petroleum.
Sapphire Energy earlier this month began production of a drop-in replacement oil made from algae.
Joule was founded specifically to sidestep the failures of previous biofuel companies, particularly algae-based biofuel efforts.
Mr Munford's proposal is to harvest the algae, rather than allowing them to die and sink.
Many algae make oil, which they store as a foodstuff against an uncertain future.
Dr Venter, however, has succeeded in engineering a secretion pathway from another organism into experimental algae.
These algae now release their oil, which floats to the surface of the culture vessel.
He found that when coral is heated, the algae lose their ability to process light.
San Francisco start-up company Solazyme says it can now generate biofuels from algae grown in the dark.
Otherwise the corals would treat the algae as a parasite or invader and attempt to kill it.
Reducing algae levels will encourage the growth of more plant species and wildlife to inhabit the reserve.
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Nutrient runoff also is causing toxic algae blooms in the Gulf of Mexico's Barataria Estuary, she said.
And this is an economic way of just bypassing plants or algae or other forms of energy.
Solazyme, another firm based in South San Francisco, wants to use single-celled algae to make its fuel.
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Any algae that can take advantage of this can thus head off in search of better climes.
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