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From: "frag lag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 02:42
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Back to grid via WVO genset
> here's one .
> The impossibility to use it worldwide?
> if we plant for it , there's no more space for food...
>
Very Incorrect. Although that is what the anti BioDiesel groups and so
called experts would have you believe.
1) Seed that is pressed for oil can still be used as stock and/or human
food, depending on the seed.
For example: Corn oil can be extracted for BD use, the meal can then be
used to prepared to make alcohol, and the spent mash ( which at this point
is high in protein ), can be used as food. Soybeans are actualy made more
palatable for stock by the extraction of most of the oil. Cotton seed ( to
my knowledge ) has no real use except as an oil source, and the left over
meal is a source of organic nitrogen for the ground, an Avocado, once the
edible part is eaten, the seed contains more than 50% of all the oil in the
fruit.
2) Many plants ( that have usable oil ) will grow were, normal food items
for consumption ( humans or stock ) will not - Chinese Tallow tree will grow
in arid areas.
In allot of cases the oil is has already been used, for deep frying, at your
local fast food, and can still be made into BD, this takes nothing away from
food production at all, and as some have already said, can be used after
filtering with slightly modified diesel engines.
Greg H.
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