Although, hydrogen is a gas, the quantity of hydrogen in atmosphere is very less. We all know great quantities of hydrogen are required for commercial purposes like hydrogenation of fats and oil, for rocket fuel, welding, reducing metallic ores etc. Hydrogen is pollution free and can replace gasoline, natural gas etc. And currently scientists of Lunchbox Laboratory are using algae to produce hydrogen.
The Lunchbox Laboratory is a collaboration between artist group Futurefarmers + the Biological Sciences Team, National Renewable Energy Lab. This lab’s scientists have already discovered that it is a viable renewable energy form, in that, algae is everywhere and it could also be used to produce biodiesel. The main problem for the research is to find the most productive strains of algae. As there are potentially millions of strains, this task is gigantic.
This laboratory is a prototype for a potentially distributed research tool that would be sent to schools so that young scientists could do primary screening of a collection of algae strains. This would serve as a preliminary screening such that non-productive strains would be ruled out and only productive strains would reach labs.
Via: Core 77
