Biodiesel can be produced by extracting the oil from the algae cell.
Siemens and Shell, for example, have just announced a new fuel-cell technology for oil rigs that will capture emissions of carbon dioxide and methane, generate power from them cleanly, and sequester the exhaust.
The research team are therefore also looking for a species of algae with a weaker cell wall and high oil content.
Using research from the Ohio labs of the old Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio), now a division of BP, Lee has a solid oxide cell that can be configured to run on natural gas, soy oil or farm wastes.
Every big car maker now has a fuel-cell programme, and every big oil firm is busy investigating how best to feed these new cars their hydrogen.
To improve community relations and protect the pipeline, the oil company has hired some villagers, armed with cell phones and dressed in bright orange uniforms and construction helmets, to patrol the pipeline on horseback.
And in buses on the U.S.' West Coast, we're testing hydrogen fuel-cell engines, designed to replace today's oil-burning engines.
Another restraint on producing large quantities of algae is that its cell walls are difficult to break, making extraction of the oil inside an energy intensive process.
As he pumped the stock with press releases like the one claiming Digital Gas had a "high temperature fuel cell" that would unlock as much as 1.1 billion gallons of oil from a neglected oil shale deposit, New Jersey officials say, Smith was using stock to renovate his home and pay his attorney.
The parts of the body that mustn't dissolve--cell membranes, for instance--are made of oily molecules, and even a child knows that oil and water don't mix.
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