EIT awards finalist: Ennesys wants to cover your building in algae

Here's a new approach to bio-energy: Flat panels of algae growing on the side of an office building. That's the vision of a French start-up named as an EIT Awards finalist by the Climate-KIC.

It's hard to imagine that tiny algae could generate enough energy to heat a building, reduce carbon dioxide emissions and clean wastewater. Yet at Ennesys, founded in January 2010 by entrepreneurs Jean-Louis Kindler and Pierre Tauzinat, the technology is being developed to do just that.

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