Comments on: This Trip Brought to You by Scum and Sewage https://ecosalon.com/algae-sewage-biofuel/ Sun, 29 Nov 2015 15:51:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.25 By: Caitlin https://ecosalon.com/algae-sewage-biofuel/#comment-3373 Fri, 15 May 2009 17:12:50 +0000 http://ecosalon.com/?p=16739#comment-3373 The exciting thing about this is that it doesn’t require using valuable land, which can cause food shortages and exacerbate deforestation.

I’d also be keen to know if the algae can sequester carbon in the process. Carbon emissions absorbed by the sea are not directly contributing to global warming because they’re not in the atmosphere, but it’s causing acidification of the ocean and that’s bad for marine life.

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