From wrenchwench at blast.com Fri Mar 16 10:26:46 2007 From: wrenchwench at blast.com (Rachel Burton) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:26:46 -0400 Subject: [Sustainable-biodiesel] Hello Listserve! Message-ID: <1DACB3C3-E0B6-4497-AC3D-E1C262A1ABEF@blast.com> This a test post for Sustainable Biodiesel. THanks Rachel Burton Piedmont Biofuels www.biofuels.coop 919-321-8260 rachel at biofuels.coop From wrenchwench at blast.com Fri Mar 16 20:38:05 2007 From: wrenchwench at blast.com (Rachel Burton) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:38:05 -0400 Subject: [Sustainable-biodiesel] Hawaii: Pacific Biodiesel to Help Project that Finds Crops for Local Fuel Message-ID: Mar 15, 2007 - MauiNews.com http://www.mauinews.com/story.aspx?id=28548 Maui-based Pacific Biodiesel will take part in a $100,000 demonstration project to test the potential of biodiesel from crops that can be grown in Hawaii. For the test, the feedstock will mostly be nuts and beans gathered from fields and roadsides, including kukui or castor bean. Kelly King, director of marketing at Pacific will take part in a demonstration this morning at the Oceanic Institute to show how the raw oil is expressed. Pacific Biodiesel?s laboratory will refine and test the output to see how well it matches to industry standards. Deborah Jordan, the Environmental Protection Agency?s Air Division director, will award the grant money to Honolulu Clean Cities. King says the consortium made a bid for enough money to do some farming, but it got only enough for the test project. She is hopeful a last-minute move in the state Legislature may get some money to grow experimental crops. Some farmers are experimenting with other crops, such as oil palm and jatropha, so unlike the castor beans, those will not have to be collected in the wild. Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) and Jatropha curcas are two of the highest yielding oil crops grown, primarily in tropical and subtropical areas.