Dr. Isaac Berzin

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  Fred Krupp, president of the New York City-based Environmental Defense Fund writes: Isaac Berzin recently signed a $92 million contract to grow the stuff most people scrape out of their fish tanks.
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  Berzin, 40, a chemical engineer, knew a few things about algae: they double their mass in a few hours, produce 30 times as much oil per acre as sunflowers do and thrive in sewage or brackish water.Most important, they devour carbon dioxide, the primary culprit in global warming.Grow the stuff like a crop, and you could use it both to produce biofuel and to pull a key greenhouse gas out of the sky.In 2001, Berzin founded GreenFuel Technologies in Cambridge, Mass., to do just that.By 2007 he had algae growing at the Redhawk power plant near Phoenix, with pipes from the smokestacks running into his greenhouses, where the algae gobbled up the CO2.He is now working with a national lab to make jet fuel from his green slime.
  
  Berzin is one of thousands of innovators reinventing the $6 trillion energy business.In Israel, where he was educated and raised, biblical metaphors come naturally to mind.Berzin points out that God first appeared to Moses as a bush that was burned but not consumed."What can you burn without consuming it?"Berzin asks.

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  According to GreenFuel's Chief Technology Officer Isaac Berzin, an algae farm large enough to absorb all the CO2 from a 1000 megawatt power plant (which would likely need to span 8-16km2), could potentially produce 150 million litres of biodiesel and 190 million litres of ethanol per year!

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  Mr. Berzin is a scientist at MIT, according to the CSM article.If anyone knows about this stuff, leave a comment and fill us in. (Whadaya think, Rob?)
  
  Turning Emissions Into Fuel With Algae
  
  Isaac Berzin has developed a method of capturing CO2 from smokestack emissions using algae, and turning the result into biofuels including biodiesel, ethanol, and even a bio-coal substitute.His process, based on technology he developed for NASA in the late 1990s, captures more than 40% of emitted CO2 (on sunny days, up to 80%) along with over 80% of NOx emissions; in turn, it produces biodiesel at rates-per-acre that could make a full conversion to biofuel for transportation readily achievable.

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  This innovative mechanism, the brainchild of Dr. Isaac Berzin - the founder of GreenFuel Technologies Corporation - harnesses the algae's photosynthetic process to consume waste gases from the power plant, fueling the algae's growth and delivering cost-effective emissions control.Once a day, the algae is harvested and dried, generating a commercially valuable by-product, known as algae biomass, used to create products ranging from biofuels to animal feed."Our system is essentially a tool that enables the industry to profit by reducing waste," explains Berzin.
  
  FUELING PHOTOSYNTHESIS WITH FLUE GASESA single celled organism, algae, lies at the heart of the GreenFuel Technologies effort.During photosynthesis, algae utilize solar energy to consume carbon compounds, such as carbon dioxide (CO2).Berzin is leveraging this process to turn CO2, a greenhouse gas found in flue gases, into oxygen and food to fuel the algae's reproduction.
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  "Isaac Berzin read about this work and came up with ways to improve efficiency and take an alternative approach to this technology.
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  In 2001, when Berzin was a research fellow at MIT, he advised Payload Systems on the design of a research apparatus for NASA's International Space Station.
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  Berzin licensed a variant of the technology from NASA for his emissions control system.The technology, called AlgaTech, allows Berzin to tailor algae cultures to the specific characteristics of a power plant.
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  "No one is going to do this if this is going to be a charity," agreed Berzin.
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  "As long as the economic discussion is framed as 'industry versus environment,' there is very little room for new thinking on either side," says Berzin.

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  Published on: 3/17/2008    Last Visited: 3/18/2008  

  Founded in 2001 by former MIT researcher Isaac Berzin -- who is now the company's CTO -- GreenFuel's technology uses algae to mitigate both nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide, key components in greenhouse gas emissions, from flue gas emissions in power plants burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas.
  
  The company has raised more than $17 million in venture funding from Polaris Venture Partners (where Metcalfe is a partner), Access Industries and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
  
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  Isaac Berzin of GreenFuel Technologies Corporation, an MIT spin off, is driven to change the world for the better.He's chosen to do that through making energy cleaner and cheaper.He's figured out a way to make efficient use of sunlight and algae to remove NOx and CO2 from fossil fuel burning systems and at the same time grow that algae to be used as biomass for energy production.A large prototype is currently being used at MIT's 20MW cogeneration plant and is exceeding expectations.He showed us a small model to explain how it works, keeping the algae moving to give it even exposure to light and keep the parts clean.

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  Isaac Berzin, founder of Greenfuels, a chemical engineering researcher at MIT, developed a system that captures carbon dioxide from conventional electric power plants into a "bioreactor" that contains water and algae.

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  Algae That Cleans Emissions and Produces Fuel - Isaac Berzin, a rocket scientist at MIT, has come up with an idea for using algae to clean up power-plant exhaust.

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  Isaac Berzin, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer
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  Isaac Berzin, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer

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  Published on: 2/1/2006    Last Visited: 9/3/2008  

  MIT scientist Isaac Berzin envisions algae, the tiny single-celled

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