It's Good for Sushi . . . and Energy Independance

As many of you likely know, the dependence of Western nations (including Israel) on the oil found under the Middle Eastern Arab and Muslim nations provides a contradictory spin on the political and diplomatic situation. (The West pays Muslim states for their oil, the money from which goes to fund terrorist and anti-Israel and US activity).

Once the West, and Israel and the US in particular, can break free of this cycle, the dynamics in the region will dramatically change. Reliance on two faced nations like Saudi Arabia may no longer be as strong. Nations like Iran, currently flush with oil money, will have to think twice about thumbing their nose to the US and calling for the destruction for Israel and pay more attention to their balance sheets.

An Israeli firm may be bringing us closer to this day of energy independence, using seaweed. As reported in Haaretz today, the Israeli firm Seambiotic Ltd. apparently has created technology to produce commercial quantities of fuel from seaweed.

Seambiotic's technology allows the industrial cultivation of seaweed through the use of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. Instead of allowing the polluting gas to escape into the atmosphere and perpetuate global warming, the gas passes through a filtration process and enters a pool, where it feeds microscopic seaweed. The seaweed is used to produce fuel. It is apparently possible to produce a liter of fuel for every five kilograms of seaweed.

I am not only proud of an Israeli company coming up with this groundbreaking technology, but it can also mean that the West can break free from the reigns of the Muslim nations, and also contribute to the fighting global warming.