New Mexico Algae Project Receives Funding
by Erin Voegele (Biodiesel Magazine) New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson recently announced that $200,000 in Recovery Act funding has been awarded to New Mexico State University. A portion of that funding will go to the university’s Renewable Energy, Water and Arid Lands Task Force to support an algae biodiesel project.
According to Abbas Ghassemi, NMSU professor of chemical engineering and director of the university’s Institute of Energy and Environment, the algae project will include the development of test beds that will be used to evaluate several algae strains. READ MORE