biodiesel information

[Bogeyman]

Or hamburgers.

With engines running on biodiesel smelling like french fries and meat, driving on the road will soon seem just like a day inside a fastfood joint. :D

[richmnd]

yah, thats good, instead of smelling like smoked bbq the whole day.

why dont you try to tie a chicken at your exhaust and let it be smoked, at the end of the day, you can have a biodiesel smoked chicken for dinner. hehe

[Bogeyman]

One pilot project being undertaken in Alaska, a collaboration between the local fish processing industry and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, makes use of fish oil in producing biodiesel. Local factories there project an annual fish oil output of 3.5 million tons.

And in Cambridge, MA, GreenFuel Technologies has been successful in producing biodiesel using flue gas emissions from power plant smokestacks, quoting independent results. Smokestack exhaust is diverted into special, self-contained bioreactors filled with algae. The algae feast on the greenhouse gases, which will consume between 30 to 80 percent of pollutants depending on the stage of photosynthesis. After ingesting the fumes, the algae can be processed into biodiesel that fuels the plant. GreenFuel currently has a field site at the MIT cogeneration facility and an undisclosed power facility in the US.

[rsnald]

And in Cambridge, MA, GreenFuel Technologies has been successful in producing biodiesel using flue gas emissions from power plant smokestacks, quoting independent results. Smokestack exhaust is diverted into special, self-contained bioreactors filled with algae. The algae feast on the greenhouse gases, which will consume between 30 to 80 percent of pollutants depending on the stage of photosynthesis. After ingesting the fumes, the algae can be processed into biodiesel that fuels the plant. GreenFuel currently has a field site at the MIT cogeneration facility and an undisclosed power facility in the US.

yeah, I read or heard this somewhere. Meron nga daw algae that produces considerable amounts of natural veggie-based oil di ko lang nasundan kung ano na nangyari.

anyways, bottom here is, as long as fatty acids can be derived, you can produce fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) = yun ang technical term counterpart of the more user-friendly term "biodiesel".

[garyq]

sa Germany (especially sa Bavarian region) they use rapeseed. When you travel down South Germany dami magagandang small, yellow flowers beside the road. Di mo talaga maiisip na they can derive BD from these very beautiful flowers.

[richmnd]

yah, i dont know that happens, but hey, its nice that they are deriving energy from renewable resources rather than depending on the fossil fuels.