South Korea to spend $271m on seaweed forests for biomass

Power Engineering International

23 April 2009 - South Korea will spend 365.3bn won ($271.5m) in the next ten years to create new seaweed forests that can help increase the country's ability to produce biomass energy, officials said.

The plan calls for 35 000 hectares of seaweed forest to be created in waters in the east and south coasts and near Jeju Island that can produce up to 1.56bn liters of ethanol per year by 2020.

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