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 With the increasing pressures on the production of biofuels from foods (ethanol from maize and biodiesel from edible oil) there is an increasing call for the production of biofuels from waste.
from: New York Times (click image for full story online)
This above article in the New York Times notes that there [...] This post is a periodic one, that simply lists interesting Biofuel stories that I feel are relevant to Africa. The link will take you to an original article which will acknowledge my source of the story.
Nigerian company produces biofuel from sorghum – some details of a project in Nigeria that uses [...] I wrote this some weeks ago but failed to post it because of my travels! Two announcements – the closure of processing in the UK by D2 oil and the opening of a “micro biodiesel facility” that will use waste oil and jatropha oil by De-Ord Fuel indicate the over optimism around Jatropha and the [...] This post is a periodic one, that simply lists interesting Biofuel stories that I feel are relevant to Africa. The link will take you to an original article which will acknowledge my source of the story. Desert plant may hold key to surviving food shortage – Liverpool is starting a project to generate [...] A month or so I ago I posted a story on the use of waste streams as raw materials for processing. I noted that there were cases in the USA where waste oil products from restaurants had become so valued that crime and “fat lifting” had began. Now Petrotec have opened a 100 000 tons [...] Waste cooking oil becomes a valuable feedstock and encourages crime. [...] South Africa’s new government lead the way in banning smoking in public (even the French can’t smoke in their cafe now) and seem to be making good decisions again.
from: Business Day (click image for full story online)
Responding to the potential food and particularly maize supply problems, the Agriculture Minister Lulu [...] This is a particularly nice idea where the biodiesel can be used to meet simpler energy needs such as lamps, cooking stoves and unsophisticated generators.
from: Timbuktu Chronicles (click image for full story online)
However, this blog addresses few of the issues that will impact on the achievement of sustainable operation of [...] Energy and Food Waste are becoming major issues in Africa at present, with warning of dire consequences if the existing trends continue. One technology that sits at the intersection of these sectors is the treatment of processing waste using anaerobic digestion – or biogas. Biogas is a simple process that is used at household level [...] |
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