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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] Homegrown diesel fuel
  • Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 18:17:35 -0700

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)







  • [Homestead] Homegrown diesel fuel, Tvoivozhd, 09/09/2004

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