Israeli patent uses seaweed to produce energy

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, it is possible to produce a liter of fuel for every five kilograms of seaweed.

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