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Pond Scum Fuels Starting to Take Flight

Algae grows fast — up to 40 times as fast as many other feedstocks considered for biofuel production. That's one thing making it increasingly attractive to a growing cadre of innovators, researchers, businessmen and venture capitalists who seek the holy grail of a clean energy source.

Startup Focuses on Algae Fuel

Filling your gas tank with algae may be getting closer.

Lunar Power: Running on Moonshine

While industrial production of ethanol may not be the savior as it was once heralded, home distillers are willing to tap into a more parochial form of energy independence.

Ecologist Dismisses ‘Ethanol Solution’

Townsend notes that producing corn for ethanol use requires intensively fertilized fields, which produce "the forgotten greenhouse gas."