Fat Tire Beer Helping To Create New Biodiesel Fuel Via Algae Sacs

New Belgium Brewing Company, the brewery behind the excellent Fat Tire Ale among other beers, is teaming up with alternative fuel company Solix to help development a system for converting oil from algae in order to make a new kind of biodiesel fuel.

In this month's Popular Science (article not yet online), details are given about how Solix plans to utilize the CO2 created by New Belgium in brewing their beers to grow the algae in plastic sacs. Yes, it all sounds a bit weird - kind of reminds me of the human harvest fields in The Matrix - but Solix plans on harvesting tons of acres of "fatty" algae grown in plastic sacs, to create biodiesel fuel for cars.

Great beer, algae sac farms, and biodiesel cars - what more do you need?

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