slime me

Put a Spirulina alga in your tank

frank markus

COULD THE LIFE form that helped give us our atmosphere now fuel our cars? A couple billion years ago, give or take, Earth had an air pollution problem that would make L.A., Mexico City, and Beijing seem as pristine as Alpine Switzerland. Then a bunch of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) evolved and started turning carbon dioxide into oxygen. This lowly slime helped provide the atmosphere required for intelligent life to flourish. Today, some of our most intelligent minds are learning how to cajole these humble algae into powering our cars. You read that right. Someday you might tank up on clean biodiesel fuel produced from oils extracted from one of five exotic algae varieties. Feed these simple organisms water, sunlight, and a stream of nasty carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, and they form…

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MotorTrend (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2006

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