Charleston Pilot Plant Could Produce Algae Biofuel
This article, which haphazardly throws algae into a long list of other biofuel producing crops, highlights that algae is at least on South Carolina’s radar of crops that could be grown in the state. This is good because because, as I have highlighted before, algae is the best biofuel crop out there. Anyways, here is what the article has to say about the pilot plant:
Well, that’s just what the Clemson University Restoration Institute and the Savannah River National Laboratory are hoping to figure out with their proposed $14 million pilot plant at the Clemson Restoration Institute in North Charleston.
Once funding is secured, the plant would take about 12 months to build.
The facility would give researchers a central place to advance the viability of using South Carolina’s best crops to make biofuel. Among those items being studied: Switchgrass, sweet sorghum, and pine, and even algae would fall into the mix.
