BC could produce 1.3 billion liters of seaweed ethanol

July 9, 2013 |

In Canada, University of Victoria mechanical engineering student has shown in his master’s thesis that B.C. has the coastline capacity to produce enough seaweed-based ethanol to more than replace what’s being imported into the province, or roughly 1.3 billion liters compared to 240 million liters of demand. Opportunities also exist for seaweed-based byproducts as animal feed. Drying seaweed has high energy costs, so the next step in the study will look at using solar thermal or geothermal heat to keep down the fuel’s GHG emissions.

Category: Research

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