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Engineers turn rotten seaweed into car fuel, aim to cut 14 million-ton of CO2 | Seaweed is showing up on Caribbean beaches and cleaning up costs are in millions of dollars. But this waste can be turned into precious fuels.
A mechanical engineer in Barbados is turning rotting seaweed into biofuel that can power cars and tourism in Barbados without fossil fuels.
However, Henry, a researcher and lecturer at the University of West Indies (UWI), believes this will have a massive economic impact since electric vehicles (EVs) are too expensive for the country’s common man. Using seaweed from the beaches and rum distillery wastewater, another waste the islands have to contend with, Brittney set up small batches of reactors, and their preliminary results were promising. Henry estimates that selling fuel to 300 taxis would cost the company $7.5 million, and a mix of debt financing from development banks and venture capital could help raise these funds.
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