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Algae Biodiesel: It's $33 a Gallon, article in GreenTech Media

Algae biofuel startup Solix, for instance, can produce biofuel from algae right now, but it costs about $32.81 a gallon, said Bryan Wilson, a co-founder of the company and a professor at Colorado State University. The production cost is high because of the energy required to circulate gases and other materials inside the photo bioreactors where the algae grow. It also takes energy to dry out the biomass, and Solix uses far less water than other companies.
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Featured Video: Aero Design West

Seniors Chris Lawhorn, Josh Hamilton and Danny Wilson were members of the 2007-08 CSU team that won the most innovative design award at the Society of Automotive Engineers’ Aero Design West competition. They designed their innovative “potential energy system” to enable their fully-loaded plane to take off in half the distance of their competitors.