11. Algae as Clean-Green Tool
The Christian Science Monitor (Mark Clayton, "ALGAE - LIKE A BREATH MINT FOR SMOKESTACKS," January 11, 2006) reported that, overshadowed by a multibillion-dollar push into other "clean-coal" technologies, a handful of tiny companies are racing to create an even cleaner, greener process using [algae]. About three years ago, while working on an experiment for growing algae on the International Space Station, [Dr. Isaac Berzin, a rocket scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology] came up with the idea for using it to clean up power-plant exhaust. If he could find the right strain of algae, he figured he could turn the nation's greenhouse-gas-belching power plants into clean-green generators with an attached algae farm next door.
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