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Pond scum harbours powerful potential
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Scientist Mike Packer is wild about pond scum.
"They are green, beautiful, do lots of cool things and nobody
cares so much if you kill them,'' he said from his laboratory at the
Cawthron Institute in Nelson.
"These are single-cell plants that are really quite neat.''
Dr Packer, a biochemist and cell-biologist, said the algae had a
lot of promise for use in the area of biofuels. Depending on the
species, a lot of the algal biomass was in the form of fats or oils
that cou...
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Pond scum harbours powerful potential
The Nelson Mail
; Scientist Mike Packer is wild about pond scum. "They are green, beautiful, do lots of cool things and nobody cares so much if you kill them he said from his laboratory at the Cawthron Institute in Nelson. "These are single-cell plants that are really quite neat Dr Packer, a biochemist and
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Fed: Dr says consistent huge problem in child welfare
AAP General News (Australia)
; Fed: Dr says consistent huge problem in child welfare CANBERRA, June 30 AAP - Different states and territories manage child welfare interventions differently and that obscures the size of the problem, a child welfare expert says. Dr Sue Packer, ACT director of the National Association of Prevention
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Fed: Money-driven mindset is new threat to children
AAP General News (Australia)
; AAP General News (Australia) 10-28-2005 Fed: Money-driven mindset is new threat to children By Jonathan Granger CANBERRA, Oct 28 AAP - Money-driven ...
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Scientists lured from large projects
The Nelson Mail
; Two of Cawthron Institute's newest scientists have a couple of things in common. Senior scientists Mike Packer and Ibrahim Elmetri have both left large overseas projects behind to move to Nelson with their wives and two children. Dr Packer is originally from Wellington but had been based in Cold
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Health & safety. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
Youth Studies Australia
; Statistical snapshot Federal Government fact sheets on Australia's 2.7 million 15-24-year-olds suggest that this age group is getting healthier. On average, 19% of these young people report having visited a doctor in the week before being surveyed about it, and most commonly that was because of
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Lecture on algae for biofuel
The Nelson Mail
; The use of algae to generate biofuel will be discussed at a public lecture in Nelson on Tuesday. The Cawthron Institute's Mike Packer is speaking about his research into algae, biofuels and other future technologies at a presentation for the Nelson Science Society at the Nelson Marlborough
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READER'S Q&A
BioCycle
; HYDROGEN BY MICROORGANISMS Q: How do microorganisms produce hydrogen from organic residuals? As Kenneth Brown's article on page 54 describes, generating hydrogen gas from biological materials does not necessarily require a biological process. For example, pyrolysis and gasification employ heat,
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Hydrogen help.(RESEARCH)
Florida Trend
; The University of Central Florida has secured $7.4 million from NASA for another year of research into ways to use hydrogen as fuel, bringing total funding to $30.4 million. Researchers have developed a smart paint that changes colors when a hydrogen tank develops a leak; extracted hydrogen from
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Fuel gas from alga.
Energy Report
; A species of green alga can be used to create hydrogen gas for fuel from sunlight and water, the American Association for the Advancement of Science has been informed. Scientists found that if the microscopic plant Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was kept in a sulphur-free environment, it produced
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CORRECTIONS
The Independent - London
; Rotten eggs In last week's report about Accelerated Low Water Corrosion ("Steel-eating bugs threaten to devour Britain's ports", 5 December), it was stated that the interaction of bacteria produced hydrogen sulphate. The gas is hydrogen sulphide. Brussels sprog Prince Philippe of Belgium is the son
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