Love to you! Thanks for posting and for all the posts! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Darryl McMahon > Sent: 04/07/14 11:30 AM > To: Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org > Subject: [Biofuel] Nuisance seaweed put to good use in Fiji | Radio New > Zealand News > > http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/240962/nuisance-seaweed-put-to-good-use-in-fiji > > Nuisance seaweed put to good use in Fiji > > Updated at 2:00 pm on 7 April 2014 > > > > Efforts are underway in Fiji to help communities power their homes and > fertilise their crops with nuisance seaweed. > > It's hoped the University of the South Pacific project would mean an end > to crops being fertilised by polluting chemicals partly responsible for > the increasing seaweed affecting beaches in the west. > > The USP's Antoine N'Yeurt says blooms of seaweed fed by pollutants and a > warming ocean have been annoying tourist operators and local communities. > > "Operators have been spending a lot of effort and money hauling this > seaweed away by barge or burying it which is very labour intensive and > not really sustainable so we came up with this solution for them to use > this as a source of biomass for making biofuel or fertiliser." > > Dr N'Yeurt says the project is working on educational material and > household machines for local people to transform the seaweed into green > energy and compost. > > _______________________________________________ > Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list > Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org > http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel >
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