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8/18/14

Today we travelled to the universidade federale de paraná to look that their biofuels. What they did was have species of algae formed in the lab. With this algae, they used photosynthesis and glycolysis to form triglycerides and other forms of natural energy like o2. These triglycerides could be made into fuel. The process itself was fairly new, and they were still experimenting with the direction the sun hit and how the different species of algae reacted in their different environments. It was really cool because the only "waste" product in the biofuel making process is oxygen because all of the other byproducts are recycled back into the process or used as food for fish!

I think biofuels is my favorite process so far, it is the most green and takes up the least amount of room for the amount of energy it produces. The only problem is that there's still a lot of work to be done to convince people it's a viable source due to the time needed to actually  begin the algae making process.