As usual scientific research provides us with further proof that investing on it is all well and good. In the laboratories of ENEA has created a new variety of freshwater microalgae Chlamydomonas, which can light up and go out with the addition of salts. The researchers in this entity has been transferred to freshwater algae, the luciferase gene that makes the luminescent "Renilla" another alga, but marina. This genetically modified micro-algae can "turn on" or "off" like a switch with only the addition of some salts. The amount of salt required is very low, and therefore the cost is compatible with major crop plants. These microalgae convert solar energy with an efficiency much higher terrestrial plants and are able to "fix" the CO2 from industrial plants, contributing to a mitigation of the greenhouse effect and producing innovative biofuels: biodiesel and hydrogen. This discovery opens new perspectives in the field of renewable energy, particularly for the production of biofuels from microalgae grown on land of little agricultural value, with no impact on the food market, as it does with the cultivation of maize. In passing day is becoming increasingly clear that the dependence on oil, causing problems attached, what is desired masochistically man. What the oil age is exceeded, with not much effort, time and average, everyone knows you spend 20 minutes of his time on the Internet. Yes, on internet, news like this because the TV does not devote some time. They are the lobby of the oil in power but they know that is a power with a certain maturity. To do this best not to follow scientific developments. After all simply that governments shift resources from research and universities elsewhere, perhaps to facilitate their own who is enriched with oil. Institutions such as ENEA specially created to find solutions and opportunities for development in a scientific sense are often subject to cuts, with little attention and little publicized. Sometimes even a Nobel Prize as director Rubbia vadino it on. Of course there are countries willing to accept some brains, such as Spain, where he now conducts his research on Rubbia thermodynamic. A note that even with little money invested by Italy in the search results are obtained is precisely the discovery at the beginning of article. This is in fact financed by the Ministry for University and Research under the project "Biological hydrogen production." I wonder if these pennies had a substantial sum of money ... maybe the time average in order to escape the domination of oil today would be short.
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