Re: What is the technical name for this kind of energy?



AKA Gray Asphalt wrote:

"K. Jones" <K. Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"BobG" <bobgardner@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There is a site that lists gallons of oil per acre for various oilseed
crops like soybeans, canola seeds, sunflower. Sunflower is great... 100
gal per acre. A coop of oilseed farmers and a biodiesel processor that
could produce biodiesel at a retail price cheaper than petro diesel
could sell as much as they could grow, but unfortunately we have
calculated the acres and square miles needed to grow enough oilseeds to
eliminate the foreign oil imports (60% of 24 quadrillion BTUs) and it
would just about cover the 3.5 million square miles of the continental
US, and we know not all of that is arable, so too little too late. It
would make money for the farmer-biodieselrefiner coop though!

Why do oilseeds have to replace *all* foreign oil imports?
Much as our electricity is generated from a variety of sources, there are
a variety of fuel substitutes available as well.

http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/biodiesel_sustainable.html

Corn 18 gal /acre
Soybean 46 gal /acre
Safflower 80 gal /acre
Sunflower 98 gal /acre
Peanut 109 gal /acre
Rapeseed 122 gal /acre
Castor bean 145 gal /acre
Jojoba 186 gal /acre
Oil Palm 610 gal /acre!!!!!
Algae ???

Corn is obviously not the crop to use to make oil for fuel from.

K. Jones

As much as I hate to include hemp because of the marijuana connection ... it
was mentioned on an interview lately by a caller (who sounded stoned) ...
what is the gal/acre of hemp to oil?

This table is very interesting but there should be a component about how
much energy comes from each gallon, no?

Are you asking about the relative energy content of one plant oil vs another ?

Graham


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