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Article: Algae - like a breath mint for smokestacks.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 11, 2006
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Byline: Mark Clayton Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
BOSTON -- Isaac Berzin is a big fan of algae. The tiny, single-celled plant, he says, could transform the world's energy needs and cut global warming.
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 the same slimy stuff that thrives in the world's oceans.
Enter Dr. Berzin, a rocket scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. About three years ago, while working on an experiment for growing algae on the International Space Station, he came up with the ...