My US Congress representative has stated that he recommends against using an existing federal grant for alternative energy development in Western Massachusetts for biodiesel development because he says it takes more energy (or nearly the same energy) to collect and convert biodiesel than it yields when it is used. This representative is a scientist, but I am lacking detailed energy studies that prove anything else. I have referred to the NBB website and the University of Iowa studies that talk about the embodied energy in biodiesel, where gains of approximately 3.2 times the energy investment when the biodiesel is used. However, there is no corresponding study for yellow grease based biodiesel!
My preliminary study shows there is an approximately 7 fold energy gain for waste based biodiesel, but this is not a formal calculation. Does anyone know the methodology used for the other studies on ethanol, soy biodiesel, or other fluids, so it can be transferred to yellow grease biodiesel? I hope everyone realizes how important this would be to the development of a new, regional based refinery. Tom Leue ----------------------------- Homestead Inc. www.yellowbiodiesel.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuels-biz/ 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/
