seaweed fuel Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:13:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 10% of Scotland's Biofuel to be Algae-based by 2020 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/10-of-scotlands-biofuel-to-be-algae-based-by-2020-20090408/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/10-of-scotlands-biofuel-to-be-algae-based-by-2020-20090408/#respond Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:13:54 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3300 Last week Scotland's Energy Minister launched the Biomara research project to study the feasibility of microalgae and seaweed usage as alternative energy in the production of biofuels. This project aligns with the requests of having at least 10% of clean transport energy by 2020. The project is about $8 million (€6 million) worth.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/10-of-scotlands-biofuel-to-be-algae-based-by-2020-20090408/feed/ 0 3300 Generating Biofuel With Bioreactor Made of Recycled Bottles https://www.greenoptimistic.com/generating-biofuel-with-bioreactor-made-of-recycled-bottles-20090206/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/generating-biofuel-with-bioreactor-made-of-recycled-bottles-20090206/#respond Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:17:47 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=2086 Michael Fisher has developed a bioreactor using algae to produce oil. What is very interesting about his invention is the bioreactor itself, which is made out of recycled bottles.

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