{"id":1584,"date":"2014-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-628\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:55","slug":"innovation-anthology-628","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2014\/07\/22\/innovation-anthology-628\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #628:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 628.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Cambria Math\";\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:1;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:roman;\n\tmso-font-format:other;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Trebuchet MS\";\n\tpanose-1:2 11 6 3 2 2 2 2 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:647 0 0 0 159 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin:0cm;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:none;\n\tmso-hyphenate:none;\n\tmso-layout-grid-align:none;\n\tpunctuation-wrap:simple;\n\ttext-autospace:none;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmso-default-props:yes;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tmso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;}\n@page WordSection1\n\t{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;\n\tmargin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;\n\tmso-header-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-footer-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n\t{page:WordSection1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">The world&#8217;s carbon dioxide dragon just might be slain by a newly discovered strain of algae.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bob Mroz<\/span> is President and CEO of HY-TEK Bio and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Dr. Feng Chen<\/span> is a marine biologist with the University of Maryland&#8217;s Centre for Environmental Science.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">They will use the half million dollar<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> Grand Challenge<\/span> prize from the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation to scale up their algae technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">As Bob Mroz explains, Dr. Chen started his search with 128,000 strains and he narrowed that down to one very robust CO2 terminator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;\ncolor:black\">BOB MROZ: <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\n10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;color:black\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">Well being an engineer we named it something very flamboyant like HTB-1 for HY-TEK Bio- Strain Number 1.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>We had to have a single strain.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>And when you start dealing with a single strain, if you run into any problems, they all die together.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>And this is a very, very hardy strain.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Our bio reactors now are 4 feet in diameter by 20 feet tall.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>They are enormous.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>And when you start scaling up like that, you don&#8217;t know what can happen.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;color:black\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;color:black\">Bob Mroz says bio reactors with HTB-1 algae would be fitted to industrial flue stacks where carbon dioxide emissions would be converted to useful material.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:\nnormal\"><u><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\n&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;color:black\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;\ncolor:black\">Thanks today to the <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\">Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation <\/strong><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;\ncolor:black\">FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<\/span><\/strong><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:\nnormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\n&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\"><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\n10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:\nEN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA\">I&rsquo;M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccemc.ca\">Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/ian_CCEMC-B_RGB_FullName_logo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02014-07-22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">HY-TEK Bio<\/span> and<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> The University of Maryland Centre for Environmental Science<\/span> have teamed up to create a bio reactor that uses algae that turns CO2 pollution in to useful products.&nbsp; 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