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From the Ted Talk by Jonathan Trent: Energy from floating algae pods

Unscramble the Blue Letters

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So here's what I came up with. Imagine that we _____ an enclosure where we put it just underwater, and we fill it with wastewater and some form of microalgae that produces oil, and we make it out of some kind of flexible material that moves with waves __________, and the system that we're going to build, of course, will use _____ energy to grow the algae, and they use CO2, which is good, and they _______ oxygen as they grow. The algae that grow are in a container that distributes the heat to the surrounding water, and you can _______ them and make biofuels and cosmetics and fertilizer and animal feed, and of course you'd have to make a large area of this, so you'd have to worry about other stakeholders like fishermen and ships and such things, but hey, we're talking about ________, and we know the __________ of potentially getting an ___________ liquid fuel.

Solution

  1. underwater
  2. solar
  3. importance
  4. alternative
  5. build
  6. biofuels
  7. harvest
  8. produce

Original Text

So here's what I came up with. Imagine that we build an enclosure where we put it just underwater, and we fill it with wastewater and some form of microalgae that produces oil, and we make it out of some kind of flexible material that moves with waves underwater, and the system that we're going to build, of course, will use solar energy to grow the algae, and they use CO2, which is good, and they produce oxygen as they grow. The algae that grow are in a container that distributes the heat to the surrounding water, and you can harvest them and make biofuels and cosmetics and fertilizer and animal feed, and of course you'd have to make a large area of this, so you'd have to worry about other stakeholders like fishermen and ships and such things, but hey, we're talking about biofuels, and we know the importance of potentially getting an alternative liquid fuel.

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Important Words

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  2. alternative
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  30. microalgae
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  34. potentially
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