Truly Green Energy - Local company out to turn algae into fuel of future

Indianapolis Business Journal
Sat. March 14 - 2009
Chris O’Malley - comalley@ibj.com
IBJ staff

The coffee pot was broken at Stellarwind BioEnergy. It was probably just as well, since most of the liquid percolating at its home—in the former Hoosier Orchid Co.—is green and algae-ridden.

It’s in water-cooler jugs and 64-ounce Coke bottles backlit by fluorescent tubes, back in the lab.

But the main act at Stellarwind is “the reactor,” a long row of 55 transparent tubes soaring to the ceiling of a greenhouse and bubbling with green glow that would scare the living Hölle out of Dr. Frankenstein.

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