In both Korea and California, a scientific breakthrough has been made. Fritz Prinz, from Stanford University has been one of the many different scientists studying to turn algae into bio-diesel. She and her students have collected several types of algae and have been keeping them at stable temperatures, and conditions in order to try to find the best type to extract a current from it. After several decades of work, she finally stole and electrical current from the plant, although it wasn't too big. Prinz says it'd take trillions of cells from algae to even get one amp. In order to steal energy from the plant, they first have to zap it with electricity, and keep the plant in sunlight while they do this. What they get back from the plant is even smaller and wastes energy. In order to even power a commercial electronic, it would take billions of algae, and that would take a lot of time and space. They can steal about twenty percent of the energy from the algae, but it makes the plant die faster. Maybe in the future we will be able to get more out of it and put more time into it. For now, they just have to keep working on it.
I think that this would be a great alternative for energy. In the future they might be able to take down the windmills and other things that get in the way of scenery. It's amazing what people are doing these days to try to help out the environment. Hopefully this could help us need to take less gas and oil from the earth.
Algae Cells that have the stored energy in them:
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