Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Alternative Energy Machine May Double World Food Production

Foods Online
September 18, 2009

San Diego, /PRNewswire/ -- The single largest year over year potential increase in the industrial age of food production may occur with the use of a San Diego based alternative energy company's machinery. Circle Biodiesel & Ethanol Corporation has announced that their latest patent-pending machinery design enables previously inedible foods such as toxic strains of algae and Jatropha to be edible with an operation that can occur in less than four hours.

CEO Peter Schuh has calculated, using figures based on landmass and ocean acreage, the potential for the huge increase in production. "Many algae and other plants that were inedible should now be edible. We believe we are in a great situation to help on the growing concern for world food production," says Peter Schuh.

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