Yip, algae is cool (refer to Greg's blog entery on biodiesel)! Yes, these are pics of real live algal cells being stressed and producing a compound called astazanthin. This is the stuff that makes salmon, prawns, flamingos and coral, pink. It's damn good for you cause it fights free radicals, which cause cancer and we have figured out how to get algae to make it, so we don't have to distroy coral reefs and we don't have to eat white farmer salmon. And it is grown in Upington. Maybe we should sent Ken there to check up on the algae next year, Kimberley is fairly close...
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