Ed Beggs wrote: >"From a historical perspective, milkweed pods were gathered from the wild, >and the floss was extracted and used as fill for life jackets during World >War II. After the War, these efforts were abandoned. Standard Oil of Ohio >became involved with milkweed in the late 1970s. Nobel Laureate, Melvin >Calvin, and others projected that billions of barrels of synthetic crude oil >could be recovered from the biomass of milkweed. A research program in >cooperation with Native Plants, Inc. was started to produce a synthetic >crude oil from milkweed biomass. Milkweed was grown like hay--it was cut, >dried, and baled. The dried biomass was then subjected to a hexane >extraction and a few chemical processes to produce a crude oil substitute. >The unfortunate conclusion from these studies was that the price was too >high and the yield was too low. Economically, it was totally unfeasible." > >http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1993/v2-422.html > >------
I wonder if that would apply on a lesser scale than Standard Oil's, using other techniques than hexane-extraction etc. For different reasons, it could be similar to what Motie was just saying about homebrewers collecting waste oil. Or producing your own energy on a small, integrated farm, or a local coop of such farms. Best Keith > >on 5/21/02 12:44 PM, kirk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I live in Montana. It grows in weed patches, turned soil, burned areas, > > roadsides etc. > > You should be able to find lots of info on web. Some people >cultivate it for > > the pods. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Shukrainternationals [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 1:31 PM > > To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: biofuel at the pumps > > > > > > Where does it grow? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:24 PM > > Subject: RE: [biofuel] Re: biofuel at the pumps > > > > > >> Milkweed is one I remember. Grows pretty well some places. > >> > >> Kirk ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/DlIU9C/4m7CAA/Ey.GAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
