Hello All, I have been recieving the associated emails from this list for some time now and find them interesting. BUT, maybe I am missing something here although there does seem one question arises - what about tying it all together? So, plant the trees tol get the seed to then get the veg oil to get the biodiesel and the biomass to get the electricity. OK, that is putting it very simplistically but, fully expanded out, it may have some merit.
I live in Northern Australia where I can access a native tree that yields copious quantities of seed that, when pressed, yields a generous quantity of oil. Although this oil is totally unsuitable as a food product, it is good for biodiesel and other industrial uses. The tree does not compete with cultivation land used for cropping, is drought tolerant and doesnot require fertilizers etc for its continued life. I am currently at the stage of putting in a screw press to extract the oil, then I can manufacture the biodiesel and generate electricity from the biomass then put the remaining biochar back into the ground (in my vegie garden as a starting point). One question though, if I have access to some 3,000 acres (say, approx 1,500 hectares) of land on which I plant some 450,000 trees that yields around 17, 72, 331,347 kg carbon per plant at 5, 10, 15, 25 years of age respectively, what is the potential for carbon trading? While these figures should be regarded as general only, they do come from a University source from a trial conducted by them over that time frame. So I would think it is reasonably accurate. I would appreciate your responses John Petersen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20101215/3d08eda2/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
