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  • Israeli firm turns seaweed into green fuel by new technology

    03/14/2007 9:08:48 AM PDT · by APRPEH · 41 replies · 862+ views
    Israel 21c ^ | March 14, 2007 | not attributed
    Israeli firm Seambiotic Ltd. has unveiled a technology to produce commercial quantities of fuel from seaweed, Ha'aretz reported. The technology - demonstrated at an international conference on marine biotechnology in Eilat - allows the industrial cultivation of seaweed through the use of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. Instead of allowing the polluting gas - one of the main contributors to global warming - to escape into the atmosphere, the gas passes through a filtration process and enters a pool, where it feeds microscopic seaweed. The seaweed is used to produce fuel. According to the scientists who developed this technology,...