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diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "Lost but making good time." <aldridgetony97@...> wrote:
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> There is little to recommend trying to grow oil crops north of the Mason Dixon line, there just is not enough sunshine per square inch.
> The corn oil/ethanol folks only survive because of subsidies. Alcohol is much cheaper if made from cane sugar, and veggie oil will be being made from algae in order to be economically viable. Hemp may be wonderful in all its guises but you have to get into the tropics to be able to use it as fuel.
> Tony.
There are trees that produce as much as 850 gallons of fuel, per acrea , and the federal government subdizes it, or did. It will not grow south of zone 7. It is the Yellowhorn. There are trees that grow south of zone 7 that produces 750 per acrea. There is even one that grows on the equator. They both grow in quit a varity of soil conditions.
I have some yellowhorn seeds, but they where not chilled this past winter, so will not grow. I did an experment with a yellowhorn seed, concerning gasification, and quality of oil gas it would produce. The meat burns a prefect blue blaze, topped with a flicker of orange, like propane or natrual gass. It burned better than pecan, which I have expermented with. Pecan is very explosive , and i suspect yellowhorn also is.
In another post German manadating bio fuels.I read where they where manadating 50% of cars run on bio fuels by 2020, I think it was . The US government has also put a manadate out for the army to use a pre centage of bio diesel in the near term future. I can not remember dates or pre centage.
In my opinion, we are at an exciting point in time, concerning fuels. No one fuel being the answer for all, will be realized, then wasting money on those just looking for grants will stop, and sources that some have used for years will start truely being produced and used . Bill C
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