Forget the tiger in your tank – Saudis harness seed power

A British company is to develop a seed-based car fuel in Saudi Arabia.
D1 Oils, which recently floated on the London stock market, has signed a 50-50 joint venture with a Saudi firm to create biodiesel for the world’s biggest crude oil exporter.

The new fuel is to be produced from plantations of jatropha trees on land that used to be desert. The black seeds from conker-type shells produced by the plants will be picked and fed into special refineries to be built in Saudi Arabia.

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