Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Inventure Chemical, Seambiotic Enter JV to Build Commercial Algae to Biofuel Plant in Israel

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Inventure Chemical has announced that it has entered into a joint venture with Seambiotic Ltd. (based in Tel Aviv, Israel) to construct a pilot commercial biofuel plant in Israel, using algae created from CO2 emissions as feedstock. The plant will utilize high-yield oil-rich algae strains that Seambiotic has developed and grown in its open pond system coupled with Inventure's patent-pending conversion processes to produce ethanol, biodiesel and other value-added chemicals.

"This is a milestone for Inventure, and for the next generation of biofuels," said Mark Tegen, Inventure's chief executive officer and co-founder. "Seambiotic has been extremely successful in its algae-based CO2 sequestering project with Israeli Electric Corporation, which proves the viability of their model. Combining their algae production technology with our algae to biofuel conversion process will close the loop."

Full report here

Nature gave us oil from algae; perhaps we should try Nature's way again

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