Innovation Anthology #628:
The world’s carbon dioxide dragon just might be slain by a newly discovered strain of algae.
Bob Mroz is President and CEO of HY-TEK Bio and Dr. Feng Chen is a marine biologist with the University of Maryland’s Centre for Environmental Science.
They will use the half million dollar Grand Challenge prize from the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation to scale up their algae technology.
As Bob Mroz explains, Dr. Chen started his search with 128,000 strains and he narrowed that down to one very robust CO2 terminator.
BOB MROZ: Well being an engineer we named it something very flamboyant like HTB-1 for HY-TEK Bio- Strain Number 1. We had to have a single strain. And when you start dealing with a single strain, if you run into any problems, they all die together. And this is a very, very hardy strain. Our bio reactors now are 4 feet in diameter by 20 feet tall. They are enormous. And when you start scaling up like that, you don’t know what can happen.
Bob Mroz says bio reactors with HTB-1 algae would be fitted to industrial flue stacks where carbon dioxide emissions would be converted to useful material.
Thanks today to the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation
FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY
I’M CHERYL CROUCHER
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Program Date: 2014-07-22