| Biodiesel from Algae | |
| China supplies the world?s demand for algae. Currently, laminaria is largely limited to use as an ethnic food and to a small industry producing agar and other industrial chemicals. With the ever-spiraling prices of oil, cultivation of seaweed will not only become economical, but will become necessary as the effects of Peak Oil make availability of inexpensive chemical feedstocks a thing of the past.China\'s cultivated marine algae production is now hundreds of times the size of the United States? wild algae harvesting industry. Read the full article |
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