A New Test for Business and Biofuel – Solix Biofuels

An unusual experiment featuring equal parts science, environmental optimism and Native American capitalist ambition is unfolding here on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in southwest Colorado.

“It’s a marriage of an older way of thinking into a modern time,” said Matthew J. Box, the chairman of the Southern Utes.

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With the twin goals of making fuel from algae and reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases, a start-up company co-founded by a Colorado State University professor recently introduced a strain of algae that loves carbon dioxide into a water tank next to a natural gas processing plant. The water is already green-tinged with life.

By KIRK JOHNSON

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/business/energy-environment/17algae.html?_r=1