The topic of sustainable alternative fuels has been on fire for quite some time now. More and more, people are looking at things other than electricity to achieve carbon neutrality. And while it’s generally agreed that EVs still hold the key to the future of mobility, it’s reassuring to see more and more initiatives geared towards alternative fuels to keep the good old internal combustion engine alive and kicking.
We’ve talked a whole bunch about hydrogen and how it has the potential for mass adoption in the not too distant future. But another, often overlooked alternative fuel source is something much closer to home—so close that some folks actually deal with it on a daily basis.
For the people living in Barbados situated in the south-eastern Caribbean sea, sargassum, a type of sludgy seaweed, is indeed something they deal with every day. So much so that the country’s prime minister declared a national emergency due to how much of the seaweed was piling up on the country’s coastlines.
