New Zealand Turns Waste Into Energy - Blue Living Ideas

New Zealand Turns Waste Into Energy

Posted on Dec 03, 2009 by Scott James.

It may not smell like roses, but it could become a great sustainability love story. Solray Energy of New Zealand has found a way to turn sewage into biofuel. At what they call the world’s largest algae refinery and their business is quite possibly the holy grail of green alchemy: they convert toilet wastewater to biofuel. Launching their “Algae to Oil Conversion Technology” this week, the joint venture company combines the chemical engineering of Solvent Rescue with the Mechanical Engineering of Rayners, two New Zealand based companies.
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Mitigating Chesapeake Bay Pollution by Making Algae Biodiesel

Posted on Oct 08, 2009 by Jennifer Lance.

The Chesapeake Bay has long been plagued by pollution, and in fact a large portion has been declared a “marine dead zone“.  This largest estuary in the United States is fed by 11 large rivers that contain run-off, which deplete the water of oxygen and are responsible for large algal blooms.  The York River, which flows into the western side of the Chesapeake Bay through Virginia, is about to be cleaned up using a unique approach:  trap nitrogen and phosphorus in the river, use it to feed algal blooms, then convert the algae to biodiesel. 
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