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Building our bioeconomy
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on April 26th, 2013
Watch: ‘The opportunities for algae are absolutely huge’
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on January 15th, 2013
Tour the new pilot algae farm near Wooster, Ohio, in this video (8:16), which includes interviews with key players from OARDC and from the farm’s operator, West Virginia-based Touchstone Research Laboratory. See previous posts on the farm here and here.
This ‘good’ algae can be used to make biofuel
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on January 15th, 2013
There are algae we don’t want. And algae we do. A pilot algae farm now operates near Wooster (pictured) and CFAES’s research arm, OARDC, is one of the project’s partners. Studies at the farm should give us new, specific details on the system’s costs, biofuel yields, evaporation rates (including an innovative material that cuts them), and sustainability. Of note: Some of the carbon dioxide released by the farm’s coal-burning greenhouse heat source gets reused. It gets pumped back into the water, which helps the algae grow. Also: Residue left after processing the algae for biofuel also gets reused. It feeds an anaerobic digester that in turn generates energy too.
Today: ‘Greening a better world’
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on August 24th, 2012
OARDC hosts a talk today (8/24) by Washington State’s Norm Lewis, who is Regents’ Professor and director of the Institute of Biological Chemistry. He’ll present “Facing Societal Needs Now and in the Future: Greening a Better World” at 11:30 a.m. in Wooster. Free and open to the public. Also viewable in Columbus by video link. Read a story about Lewis’s research on developing new biofuels, “Natural Solutions to the Energy Crisis,” here.
Growing green, with an eye down the road
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on August 22nd, 2012
Touchstone Research Lab’s new biofuel algae farm in northeast Ohio, which includes OARDC as a partner, is mentioned in last week’s Energy Efficiency News.
Meanwhile, Ohio State scientist Allison Snow, in a story carried by UPI on Monday (8/20), sounds a cautionary note about the possible future genetic engineering of algae. She holds an adjunct appointment in our college.
Nice touch anyway
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on August 7th, 2012
The official “Ford Racing” compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel gauge (upper right corner; click it to see it larger) in OARDC’s newly converted CNG Ford Fusion. The car will run mainly on renewable, locally produced, biogas-derived CNG. And at legal, non-racing speeds, we should add. Check out our two previous posts, here and here, for details.
The (gas-filled) junk in the trunk
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on August 7th, 2012
Here’s a look in the trunk of OARDC’s new Ford Fusion, which has been converted to run on compressed natural gas, or CNG (most of this will be renewable, biogas-derived CNG). The added CNG tank (black with yellow stripes) can be seen here. It cuts down a lot on the truck space. But there’s still enough room for a couple of average-size suitcases. Also visible is the CNG filling port, which is the small black circle and blue label (“CNG only”) in the lower left.
Give it the (renewable bio-) gas!
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on August 7th, 2012
OARDC has taken delivery of its first Ford Fusion converted to run on compressed natural gas, or CNG. It’s one of four CNG vehicles that will be joining the center’s fleet as part of a Clean Fuels Ohio-funded demonstration project — the idea being that most of the CNG used in these vehicles will be renewable, biogas-derived CNG produced by quasar energy group in OARDC’s BioHio Research Park.
Green ink: Two stories about the new algae farm
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on August 6th, 2012
Check out these recent stories about northeast Ohio’s experimental algae farm project (in which OARDC is a partner) in Farm and Dairy and the Akron Beacon Journal.
This is what an algae farm looks like
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on July 27th, 2012
An outside look at Touchstone Research Lab’s new algae farm. In the foreground, partly hidden by the fence (looking mostly white due to the liners), are two of the algae-growing raceways. Similar raceways are in the greenhouses. Details here, here, and here.
