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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.

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Nature gave us oil from algae; perhaps we should try Nature's way again