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>> its another food item on your chef. me as a cook, thats what i want. these are two years old cherries with the cherry pits. five years old wild roses. >> this is amazing. theyre talking about will it taste good in two years if you ferment it or age it or dry it. >> we like to ferment it. we add bacteria to it, so in three years time, it becomes delicious. the diversity, youre looking at fermentations and different bacteria, looking at different molds, yeast, all sorts. >> there is stuff rotti...

Education that are leading to good paying jobs. so what we want to make sure is a good institution that -- those that are taken of, the disvangd, be they veterans or a single mother with three children, trying to go to school and take the next step up the economic ladder. the last thing you want is that person to be in a worse position than when they started. >> its nice to have your time, i know youre a busy man. thank you. right after the show, on the last word, yogurt gate, the president of...

The last thing you want is that person to be in a worse position than when they started. >> its nice to have your time, i know youre a busy man. thank you. right after the show, on the last word, yogurt gate, the president of the united states versus the fermentation of milk.

It may look like your ordinary science lab, but the workers are consumed with only one thing, algae. we got a behind the scenes look at their algae production from start to finish. a company cofound ir harson dillon was our guide. >> what we do in this room is we strain algae to find out which strains make oil and make a lot of oil and make the right make kind of oil. >> this is almost like a miniature oil producing machine? >> thats exactly what it is. >> so we have the material feeding the alg...

Happens. this is almost like a miniatureized oil-producing machine. thats exactly what it is. >> reporter: so we have the material right here thats actually feeding the algae. >> correct. we grow our algae through fermentation so in the large-scale production process, the algae will be in big steel tanks where its dark inside. we take the biomass, the plant material, and we feed it in at a precise rate, at a precise temperature, and the algae conviert that buy mow mass directly into crude oil ve...

Are there any differences with an engine being fired with fuel that has been produced from algae? >> one key difference is this fuel actually burns a lot cleaner than petroleum-based diesel fuel. so it produces about 28% less particulates that petroleum-based diesel. >> reporter: its interesting you can make oil from algae, but how do you make it competitive? >> well, thats the advantage to this technology of fermentation with algae. ethanol costs $1.50 a gallon to make. we will be at or below $...

This is where the action happens. >> reporter: this almost like a miniaturized oil-producing machine. >> exactly what it ize we have the materiel right here thats actually feeding the algae. >> correct. we grow our algae through fermentation, so in the large-scale production process the algae will be in big, steel tanks, where its dark inside. we take the biomass, plant material, and feed it in at a precise rate and temperature and the algae convert the biomass directly into crude oil rapidly. >...

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