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  • From: "John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Any idea is this is viable?
  • Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 22:13:25 -0700 (PDT)

Aloha,

Ditto Kelly's points...doable sure, I saw a tabletop pyrolisis demo making
fuel oil from hemp ten or more years ago - apparatus made from hardware-store
parts, very DIY, and it worked.

"Viable" is a whole 'nother issue.

Some folks who've crunched some hypothetical numbers around biofuels suggest
that using biomass for fuel production merely to meet *current* global energy
needs (most of which are created by industrial cultures) would leave us
roughly *no* place left for growing food...doesn't matter what sources, though
some are more efficient per acre than others (and they're still talking
massive monoculture of fuel plants for the most part)...so "reduce" is still
step one.

Biodiesel as 'opportunity' fuel source is getting more common - Seattle paper
the other day had an article saying that some boaters are getting into it too,
and three marinas in Seattle are now selling it dockside! More small
producers selling to motorists are turning up too.

Creating enough used fryer oil to completely replace fossil fuel comes under
my comment above on "viable," though. It's fine for opportunity use but it's
not a 'replacement' solution, all else being equal.




John Schinnerer - MA, Whole Systems Design
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