July 23, 2012

Brazil to build first algae-based biofuel plant

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The world’s first industrial plant producing biofuels from seaweed will be built in the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco in late 2013, the official in charge of the project said Thursday.

The factory to be set up by Austrian firm SAT on a sugar cane plantation that yields ethanol, will produce 1.2 million liters of algae-based biofuel annually, Rafael Bianchini, head of SAT’s Brazilian subsidiary, told AFP.


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