[Homestead] Homegrown diesel fuel
Tvoivozhd
tvoivozd at infionline.net
Thu Sep 9 21:17:35 EDT 2004
If you had the climate for it a small African Palm Oil plantation would
produce 6000 liters of biodiesel fuel per acre---the easiest and highest
yield of biodiesel fuel I know, with some useful human or animal feed
byproducts to sweeten the pot.
In a less tropical climate, like around Corpus Christie, jojoba would
fit in, not much oil until shrubs are ten years old, but they live
and produce for 150 years. Seeds do not all ripen at the same time,
very expensive to harvest.
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html (Keith Addison's
Journey to Forever has the relative yields of all biodiesel
crops----hemp would be good if the politicians got the hell out of the
way---lower yielding than African Palm Oil and Jojoba, but a
bulletproof crop you can set and forget, immune to damn' near
everything but Keystone Kops)
http://www.ukcia.org/research/HempAndTheNewEnergyTechnologies.htm
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:lxzgLlURM2gJ:www.wws.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/byteserv.prl/~ota/disk1/1991/9105/910509.PDF+jojoba+oil+yield+per+acre&hl=en
(some other interesting crops, especially those that grow well in
extremely hot, dry conditions)
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