A mechanical engineer in Barbados is turning rotting seaweed into biofuel that can power cars and tourism in Barbados without fossil fuels.
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.Rum and Sargassum, a startup in Barbados in the Caribbean islands, is turning rum waste from distilleries and seaweed washed off onto the shores to produce bio-compressed natural gas to fuel cars.
Sargassum, or seaweed, has been invading Caribbean beaches for over a decade. The warming oceans and increased marine pollution have propelled the weed growth in the Sargasso Sea, which gets washed up on the pristine beaches in the Caribbean. Existing internal combustion engine vehicles can be retrofitted with a kit in about four hours and run on gas. The cost of the kit is a fraction of that of an EV. So, Henry was working to replicate Brazil’s success in using sugarcane to create biofuel that could power cars.
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