You might know that eating algae is good for your health (it
cleans your gut, to name just one), is used in cosmetics and medicines and can
serve as biofuel. But recently we’ve found even more evidence of the fact that
algae will shape our daily life in the near future:
- Designers started using algae in furniture, with the
combined benefit of producing (naturel) light and producing healthy food at the
same time… feels like an ‘all in one’ deal! (read the article here)
- Very recently scientists succeeded to convert algae into
crude oil in just one hour (instead of millions). Additionally, the by-product
of this process, phosphorus, can serve to grow more algae! A circular economy
in practice! (read the article here)
- Talking of oil, algae have long been seen as a potential material
to produce plastic, hence eliminating the need for crude oil to produce
plastics… until recently this was perceived a possible in a distant future, but
a recent method to genetically modify algae could do the trick in the very
short future (read the article here)
- Probably the most remarkable (and promising) application of
this: you can use algae to produce edible water bottles (read here)
- Last but not least, algae can be used to just soak CO2 out of the air and use it as a bioreactor. This is actually being done already above a highway in Geneva… (read here)
