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The Chlorophyll Collective of Berkeley, California, is made up of an assortment of scientists, biologists, eco-architects, eco-engineers, writers, artists, community leaders and environmentalists. All of whom are brilliantly dedicated to expanding global consciousness and sensitivity to ecosystems. The Chlorophyll Collective has a mobile installation that uses algae to capture and cleanup up to 90% of the exhaust from a gasoline powered generator. We are showcasing our installation and our open-source technology at various music and arts festivals and events. At these events, we host workshops and discussions while we gaze upon a bank of bubbling green algae tubes (photobioreactors), as well as educational tools and scientific monitoring instruments. This installation is called "the Single Cell Solution". Suspended in water in vertical closed-system bioreactor tubes we'll be growing algae and bubbling exhaust through it. Algae literally eats the exhaust while it photosynthesizes, and produces oxygen as it's first, of many, valuable by-products. We have energy-efficient lighting to synthesize sunlight and stimulate photosynthesis at night. This is so the algae can and will eat exhaust day and night, whenever the generators are running. One of algae's other by-products we'll discuss with you is BIODIESEL. Some algae have a ghigh oil content, which can be extracted and made into biodiesel. With more public interested, and continued research and development, 'algal biodiesel' could prove to be a sustainable source of fuel for our country. Growing algae is not only a way to ameliorate / remediate exhaust emissions directly, but it is also a way to offset carbon emissions in general. Calculate the amount of carbon your weekly routine generates ( http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/carboncalculator/), and the Chlorophyll Collective can show you how to grow enough useful algae to remediate your carbon output completely.