Algae bio-diesel from Sunderbans, India
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Algae bio-diesel from Sunderbans, India
Indrani Dutta, Aug 2007
Sunderbans chosen as a site for proposed algae cultivation
KOLKATA: The Sundarbans delta, an archipelago of some 100 islands spread over 4,262 sq. km. on the Indian side of the Bay of Bengal, is becoming the incubator of ecology-friendly energy sources…
A new chapter will open if the efforts to try out algae cultivation in order to extract bio-diesel reaches fruition, in this remote deltaic marshland which is the world’s largest mangrove swamp. ….A Chennai-based company, Bio Max, is keen on setting up an algae cultivation project, on one of the uninhabited Sundarbans islands.
S.P. Gonchowdhury, director, West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency, said the economics of algae as a bio-diesel source was better than jatropha which needed land for cultivation, while algae could be grown on marshy lands.
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Nature gave us oil from algae; perhaps we should try Nature’s way again
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