An interesting concept

Wednesday there was a meeting to bring us up to date on the grant status for upstream lake clarification work. Things are moving right along and we expect to have a special board meeting soon to cover the issue and projected plans for 2014. More to come on this later.
One attendee was James Cook. He is not involved in the grant plan but it was interesting to hear his company's desires. They would like to have permission to bring in a skimmer (to other lakes as well) and skim off surface algae. The next step is to pump it into a van where there is a centrifuge that spins out the water and extracts the gummy stuff and most of the toxins. What is left is a jelly like substance that is frozen and sent to their plant in Ohio where it is used for experimental purposes including possible drug applications as well as for testing and learning composition characteristics.
This is at no cost to us but it is very interesting to me for a personal reason. A derivative of blue-green algae is being tested as a possible treatment for the disease that has caused my wife to lose all her sight, retinitis pigmentosa. Currently according to James the only source of the material they intend to develop is from overseas. Very odd to say the least. This is a no lose situation for us.
There has been no definitive action by the board on this but I can see no roadblocks so if you see people from Beagle Bioproducts on site in a few weeks that is what it is all about.

Ken