On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 08:34:25 -0500, you wrote: >avocado oil has a very high flash point. 491F before it starts to smoke or >burn. sounds perfect for a diesel. the oil is obtained by pressing the flesh >of the fruit, which contains 13-22% oil.
Since this is all taking place in Southern California, right now, and since Avocado was identified in the article as being one of the types of produce that didn't fair well in the newer irradiating measures (it changed the taste and such, to the point where it could not be sold) then perhaps some action could be taken to alert the growers to this other outlet for their produce. I think also the irradiating company and state officials could be interested. I mean, if there is one type of produce that their actions don't work on, and if they could "complement" their assistance to the growers by referring them to biodiesel producers, then this would be win-win-win-.... etc. The growers (including some organic folks) were pretty desperate when they were covered a few weeks or months ago, so I'm sure anything that could help them get some revenue, even if just a little, the effort might be appreciated. And I hear occassional annecdotal reports of southern califronia efforts toward bio-diesel, so maybe someone reading this list would like to do some experiments with this produce? Even if there isn't enough time to make it work out ideally this time, it might be worthwhile to research now (just as they are doing with the irradiation) in preparation for possible future allocations of "waste" produce. MM ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make Money Online Auctions! Make $500.00 or We Will Give You Thirty Dollars for Trying! http://us.click.yahoo.com/yMx78A/fNtFAA/46VHAA/9bTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
