Friday, November 23, 2007

An Israeli company drills for oil in algae

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An Israeli company drills for oil in algae

The Israeli company Seambiotic has found a way to produce biofuel by channeling smokestack carbon dioxide emissions through pools of algae that clean it. The growing algae thrives on the added nutrients, and become a useful biofuel.

For the last two years, the company has done something that other alternative fuel companies have dreamt about and are only starting to do now: they've tested their idea with an electric utility company - a coal-burning power plant in the southern city of Ashkelon operated by the Israel Electric Company (IEC).

Full report here


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

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