Trade group leader suggests turning algae in landmark pool into fuel The recently reopened Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is in need of a good cleaning, but Mary Rosenthal floated another idea: Leave it be. Rosenthal Rosenthal, executive director of the Algae Biomass Organization, couldn’t sit idly by as news stories piled up about the algae bloom choking the pool. Don’t drain it, she said in statement, because the algae could be turned into fuel. In fact, she said the landmark has the potential to produce 1.5 million gallons of algae-based biofuel per year. “We saw something that could be a negative for algae, and we wanted to show the positives of algae from… Read More