April 3, 2007...11:51 am
Seaweed Into Fuel
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On March 22, a group of Japanese scientists released details of an ambitious proposal calling for the large-scale production of bioethanol made from cultivated seaweed.
Researchers from Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and several other private-sector firms envision a 10,000 square kilometer (3,860 square mile) seaweed farm at Yamatotai, a shallow fishing area in the middle of the Sea of Japan. They claim a farm of this scale could produce about 20 million kiloliters (5.3 billion gallons) of bioethanol per year, which is equivalent to one-third the 60 million kiloliters (16 billion gallons) of gasoline that Japan consumes each year.Source
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April 3, 2007 at 10:35 pm
This is about the first time I’ve come across seaweed as a potential biofuel source, but I guess seawead isjust very big algae… which people have been looking at. There’s more on biofuels in the Big Biofuels Blog
July 3, 2007 at 6:15 pm
interesting!!!
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