Biodiesel from sewage!

You can just make this stuff outa anything!? So I was clicking around and trying to learn more about diesel blah blah blah….. When I came to this article about a company from New Zealand that was using sewage to create biodiesel.

Aquaflow Bionomic has made the first biodiesel fuel from wild algea. Previously only done in labs with specially grown algea Aquaflow’s comes from Marlborough District Council’s sewage treatment works. I doubt it gets more wild than that. The extra benefit is you get clean water to use also.(I won’t be drinking it) I can’t wait for the future when we’ve run out of oil and people are fighting for sewage.

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[…] Remember when I was talking about turning sewage algae into biodiesel?  Well it seems others thought this was a good investment and the Girvan Institute of Technology has invited that New Zealand company, Aquaflow Bionomic Corp.,  to join them.   The Girvan Institute of Technology is a Silcon Valley based non-profit, public benefit corporation that helps speed up development of cutting edge technology. […]

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