You may have heard of people using vegetable oil and even recycled cooking oil to fuel their cars. But algae? A team of University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers is working to extract oil from that sticky green stuff that gums up boat motors and fishing lines. Then they'll study the feasibility of using it as a biofuel.

Nebraska team looks to tap algae for energy

You may have heard of people using vegetable oil and even recycled cooking oil to fuel their cars.


But algae?          


A team of University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers is working to extract oil from that sticky green stuff that gums up boat motors and fishing lines. Then they’ll study the feasibility of using it as a biofuel.


 


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