Fish to Optimize Biofuel Production from Algae…

We have reached that stage where making biofuel as an alternative to non-renewable fossil fuel isn’t the priority anymore. The focus now is on optimizing the production of biofuel so that the process could be made more feasible. There’s a company in the US that has discovered a way to do just that!

LiveFuels, Inc.

Is a company based in Texas, USA that has recruited the services of fish to optimize the production of biofuel.

Why?

Currently when biofuel is produced using algae, cultures of algae should be grown and then processed into fuel. This however is an expensive and difficult process.

Therefore…

The aforementioned US company has pitched the idea to produce biofuel based on the oils that come from fish that eat the algae.

How?

The company is to develop test facilities in Texas where regional fish species (filter feeding fish and other aquatic herbivores) will be grown in low-cost, open-water systems. These fish will then be fed with the algae. Next the fish will be processed to obtain the required biofuel base.

The idea is not new, as something similar is currently being done in Greenland where sharks caught in fishing nets are being processed as biofuel.

via: Physorg