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Pond-Powered Biofuels: Turning Algae into America's New Energy

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Pond-Powered Biofuels: Turning Algae into America's New Energy

By Amanda Leigh Haag, March 29, 2007 @ Popular Mechanics

Using a complex photosynthetic process, breakthrough innovators have developed biodiesel and ethanol from an unlikely source that can double its output overnight and just might help give alternative energy the bump it needs: little green goo.

Three years ago, Colorado-based inventor Jim Sears began tinkering with a design to mass-produce biofuel. His feedstock (algae) may have struck soybean farmers as a laughable gamble. But the experiment worked, and today, Sears’ company, Solix Biofuels in Fort Collins, is among several startups betting their futures on the powers of algae, says this article from Popular Mechanics.

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Nature gave us oil from algae; perhaps we should try Nature's way again

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