<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4fdf433c-1846-4f48-8c29-783d9ef16889/54D969E8-9F24-4A30-8584-DDB9254B76F7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2600&q=salicornia%20crop&category_id=13" href="http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2600&q=salicornia%20crop&category_id=13" style="font-size: 11px;">www.biodieselmagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2600&q=salicornia%20crop&category_id=13"><H2>Sea asparagus can be oil feedstock</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2600&q=salicornia%20crop&category_id=13"><DIV class="author">By Ryan C. Christiansen</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2600&q=salicornia%20crop&category_id=13"><DIV>On two Gulf of California plantations in the state of Sonora, Mexico, Phoenix-based Global Seawater Inc. is using coastal land and seawater to grow what it sees as an important biodiesel feedstock that will help solve the world’s energy needs. At farms in Bahia Kino and Tastiota, Mexico, Global Seawater is growing salicornia, a salt-loving halophyte plant that thrives in heat and poor soil. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2600&q=salicornia%20crop&category_id=13"><DIV>Also known as sea asparagus, salicornia has traditionally been seen as a food source. However, “with increases in global energy prices, it became much more economically attractive to begin looking at salicornia as a feedstock for biodiesel and other energy products,” said Jason McCoy, associate to the chief executive officer and chairman’s office for Global Seawater. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2600&q=salicornia%20crop&category_id=13"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.biodieselmagazine.com/img/A9F7C697-7554-4414-88BD-2E5E9C31C399" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2600&q=salicornia%20crop&category_id=13"><DIV>The Global Seawater Inc. salicornia plantation near Bahia Kino on the Gulf of California in Mexico./PHOTO: GLOBAL SEAWATER INC.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/54D969E8-9F24-4A30-8584-DDB9254B76F7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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