Well, MN will soon start requiring biodiesel in it’s diesel. This boosts the relevance of my proposed community development project (A feasibility study for biodiesel in MN) tremendously. Sweet. I had the feeling I’d picked an impractical, irrelevant pet project that no one would ever take seriously. This helps me feel a little better about things.
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That was so sexy.
Can you point me to a decent biodeisel starting point?
I have heard tell that it is not positive energy return when creating the oils specifically for use as bio diesel. Is this likely to change with research? Is recycling from dirty consumer sources workable and/or being developed? Is it only a chemical battery of sorts?
These are the kinds of questions I have. I have searched the web etc, but I’m not clear on who is being rigorous and who is shilling.
I found it first on something talking about the potential for algae based oil as a feedstock for biodiesel and went pretty haphazardly from there. I’ve learned bits and pieces from different places. As per usual the wikipedia page is a very good general introduction, and knows some things that I do not. It knows less about the algae front.
For that I recommend google searches on biodiesel and algae. The academic paper on it from NREL is still around, though dense, and mostly uninformative to nonspecialists. It’s pretty incomprehensible to me.
yay
I wish they would do that here soon. The only place to get biodiesel is at a PX – and since I don’t have a military ID…