Cross-post. >To: biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com >From: "mauro_knudsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 04:10:22 -0000 >Subject: [biofuels-biz] Re: Biofuel business in developing countries. > >Hello Hakan: > >I«m working with biodiesel in Argentina, and after read your >articule I have to say that I«m really agree with all your ideas >expresed that paragraphs. In special with your conception about will >consume in the future the last oil reserves (the industrialized >countries, of course!), there is NO PLACE for our third world >countries in this oil reserves. In fact I belive that if our >countries take the biofuels way, have a very big chance to overcome >and get really strong economies. We can use biofuel while other >countries fight by the oil, and this can save us and make our life >easy and safe! Argentina have several advantages, we are the biggest >vegetable oil exporter in the world (5 millon tonnes per year), we >have we have up to 10 millon hectaries of unused land that could >produce more than 2 tonnes of oil per hectarie with alternative oil >crops, we have a very eficient crushing complex (similar in >tecnology to the US soybean crushing complex). But our goberment >don«t listen to us, we need biofuel politcs!!. That«s the problem. >However our diesel fuel is expensive, and this is good for biofuels. >I have some suggestions on how to create a biofuel business, I«m >working in biodiesel process tecnology and I think that this could >be one key. My objetive is to create the Fort T of biodiesel plants. >So I develouping a plant work without use any chemical catalist, and >this have several advantages: > >- The process can consume any crude vegetable oil or grease (without >neutralize). >- In every feedstock we obtain a minimum of 99% of biodiesel yield >with not less than 97% conversion. >- The process don«t make any soap. >- The process don«t wash the biodiesel (because don«t have any soap >and catalist trazes). >- The procesing time is 6 minutes vs 1 to 6 hours in the convetional way. >- The entire process use 4 time less energy than the others. >- For the same capacity the plant is little (and cheaper). >- The process is fully continuos. >- The biodiesel obtained always have good quality. >- The glicerine obtained have higher concentrations and less >contaminants than in the other process. >- The process don«t need operators. >- The cost for procesing its cheaper. >- And the most important, the process is very eficient at any scale!! > >So, my idea is start producing biodiesel with this plant (at very >low scale) in coops with farmers who will procesing their own seeds >to produce their own fuel. This could be very auspicious, because we >are producing a high quality products, at low cost, without need a >big invest. I think that with this technology we open up and support >the possibilities of a decentralized a biofuel production. > >We also are researching the alternative oil crops (Energy Crops), >this could help us in the medium term (5 - 10 years), because set a >new crop in arid lands, needs a lot of invest and research (to take >care the local enviroment). But I think that in the future, most of >vegetable oil for biodiesel will come from alternative crops because >in 2020 will be 8.000 millons people in the world, and will need a >lots of food!. > >Thank you very much for think in us!, the developing countries. > >Best regards, > > > Mauro Knudsen. > > > > >--- In biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com, Hakan Falk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Some time ago I started to write on "Biofuel business in developing > > countries". I now reach a stage where it could be beneficial to ask >for > > comments and suggestions from the list members. The most important > > suggestions on how to create and organize a biofuel business are >not ready, > > I estimate that it is 20% more needed but you can look at it, > > > > http://energy.saving.nu/biofuels/biofueldev.shtml > > > > It should be of special interest if I can get comments from members >working > > in developing countries. If you do not want to post your comments, >please > > send them to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Hakan > > > > > > > > ********************************************** > > If you want to take a look on a project > > that is very close to my heart, go to: > > http://energysavingnow.com/ > > http://hakan.vitools.net/ My .Net Card > > http://hakan.vitools.org/ About me > > http://vitools.com/ My webmaster site > > http://playa.nu/ Our small rental activities > > ********************************************** > > "A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to > > how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world > > being round that agitated people, but that the world > > wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has > > been sold to the masses over generations, the truth > > will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving > > lunatic." -- Dresden James > > > > "No flag is large enough to cover the shame of > > killing innocent people" -- Howard Zinn > > > > "Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. > > We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may > > wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm > > wrinkles the soul." - Unknown
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