Algae Power And Ocean Energies

Take a moment to think back on that science class you had in eighth grade

. Chances are you probably don't remember all that much, and chances are a great deal of the information you learned has since become outdated as new innovations and technologies hit the scene. However, one thing you learned there is still happening on day to day, minute to minute basis all over the world. What do I speak of? Photosynthesis. With the aid of the sun's rays, plants go through a complex process that changes the sun's warmth into a sort of chemical energy.

Recent innovations in the laboratories of Stanford University have taken this idea of photosynthesis to the next level. If plants can convert this chemical energy, what is stopping humans from capitalizing on it as well? In order to make do this, certain steps were needed to get the ball rolling.

Scientist (with the aid of some pretty powerful technologies) snatched up the electrons that have had some interaction with the sun's light and were at the maximum amount of energy levels capable. With the help of these excited electrons and some basic gold electrodes used in a variety of other energy creation methods, scientists were able to create a small electric current.

By putting the electrodes inside the chloroplast of the ocean's algae cells and with a small tap to get the ball rolling, a tiny energy generator of sorts was created. What does this exactly mean? Well for one, it could be the smallest building blocks of an energy source that will put some of the leading ones straight to the curb. With no negative emissions and a completely "green" sustainability, algae energy isn't the pipe dream that it used to be.

If this were to become a reality, scientist could shut down coal plants, nuclear facilities and other potentially harmful structures and instead have the same energy creation going on in concentrated pools rich with energy supplying algae.

But the breakthrough is not without its criticisms. The amount of energy that was extracted this way was pretty minute. So minute in fact that almost a trillion algae cells would be needed to supply the amount of energy a small double A battery would give.

Another issue that will need to be solved is the fact that these organism are alive, and like all living things, do not last forever. A typical algae cell used in this manner only sees about one hour of living time. Once the cells have died, they can no longer be used to supply energy. Scientist have yet to discover what is killing them at faster rates when used in this manner but some speculation as to why has come out.

Some scientist says that the stimulation caused by the energy extraction is leading these algae cells to a quicker death, while others say that the energy expelled is instead going somewhere else, rather than to inward processes that are needed to keep a living organism alive.

Whichever the case may be, these algae have yet to unlock their true potential in supplying to world with valuable energy and power.

by: Max Stanford

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