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From the story: That green scum you've seen on ponds and lakes could well be the next biodiesel feed stock. AlgaeLink, a subsidiary of the Dutch firm Bioking, is introducting it's revolutionary photobioreactor next month at the Biodiesel-Expo in the UK.

A plant called jatropha is being hailed by scientists and policy makers as a potentially ideal source of biofuel, a plant that can grow in marginal soil or beside food crops, that does not require a lot of fertilizer and yields many times as much biofuel per acre planted as corn and many other potential biofuels.

By planting a row of jatropha for every seven rows of regular crops, Mr. Banani could double his income on the field in the first year and lose none of his usual yield from his field.