Microalgae Biotechnology by Clemens Posten, Steven Feng Chen
English | PDF | 2016 | 205 Pages | ISBN : 3319238078 | 3.7 MB
One of the biggest global challenges of the twentieth century is to sustainably supply a growing world population with food, raw materials, and energy in times of climate change. In doing so, biomass plays an important role, as the plants, with the help of sunlight and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, can produce all these components sustainably and without consuming fossil energy sources. This photosynthesis-based capacity of plants, hence, is the cornerstone of the current bioeconomy concept. However, there are clear limits: The available and even decreasing agricultural area and the yield per unit area that can hardly be increased any further.
