For your reflection we are going to take advantage of the website (www.allaboutalgae.com). This website is a great resource to learn more about algae, and it has imbedded links to algal companies throughout the website. So for this reflection, we want you to follow the directions below as you look through the website and then list the information we ask for (bullet points are a great way to do this). There is no word requirement and this doesn’t need to be an essay, focus more on exploring the websites.
•What are the three national and global issues driving algal research and why algae is proposed to aid these issues (“Why Algae” tab and the “Benefits” quick link of “Algae Basics”)?
•There are many ways to cultivate algae (“Production Systems” quick link in “Algae Basics”), visit the websites for Sapphire Energy, Solazyme, and Bioprocess Algae (the links are in their respective production system or you can search for them) and list their cultivation techniques, targeted algal products, and their histories.
•Visit “Algae Fuels” tab on www.allaboutalgae.com and look through different types of fuels algae can produce. Use the links to visit websites for Heliae and Algenol. List their cultivation techniques, targeted algal products, and their histories.
•Because algal fuel is still not economically feasible, companies are now offsetting cost by co-producing a valuable byproduct in addition to a fuel. What are “Other Products” (on www.allaboutalgae.com) that algae can produce?
•Visit the “Algae Industry” tab and look at “Commercial Production”, visit the website for Cellana and summarize their cultivation technique, targeted algal products, and their history.