Tukuba university discovered a sort of seaweed, "Aurantiochytrium" which can create 10 -12 times as much hydrocarbon (similar to oil) as Botryococcus(usual seaweed). And the seaweed can purify the water.
In trial calculation by research team, it seems that if cultivating it in a pool of 1 meter in depth, we can create hydrocarbon 10,000t per 1ha in one year. So it seems that in only 20,000ha seaweed oil plant, it can create as much oil as Japan imports for one year and we will be able to get oil 1 liter for 50 cents.
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