Vehicles running o the roads of New Zealand will soon be powered by algae! Yes, a biofuels company based on Marlborough has derived a new bio-diesel from algae, which – it believes — could eventually meet about 80% of the country’s fuel demand!
Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation claimed to be the world’s first to produce bio-diesel from algae found in local sewage ponds. One successful as a commercial fuel, the fuel’s economic potential will be enormous.
Over the next year, Aquaflow plans to increase the bio-diesel’s production from the Marlborough sewage ponds to 1 million liters, according to Chairman Barrie Leay.
On Friday, the Energy Minister David Parker and the Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons test-drove an algae-powered car at the Parliament.
