A Viable Biofuel?

natural rah writes "A laboratory in India has developed a process for making diesel fuel from an inedible plant which grows in barren wastelands. Although biofuels are mass produced and used in USA and EU, they have been traditionally derived from edible oils like soy bean and rapeseed. Using edible oils to make fuels is evidently not an option in a country like India. This fuel is "carbon neutral" (at least theoretically), has potential to make good use of barren wastelands, is clean and sustainable. Read more here -- could you have a SUV and not put excess carbon into the air?"

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Re:Ummmm...

[Profane MuthaFucka]

I actually did NOT read the article on Wikipedia. I was going from memory, because I have had occasion in the past to look up rapeseed oil.

Now, if you think about it, what are the chances that some Finns eating rapeseed oil being considered significant? And, as you well know, some cultures will eat almost anything, despite the fact that someone else considers it obnoxious. Finns will eat a bitter oil, but Americans and Canadians won't touch it, except in the altered form marketed as Canola Oil.

I've visited Finland myself, and I found it be a lovely place filled with kind people, frolicking in the beautiful woods. Well, actually not really in the woods, since I was only in Helsinki for a week. Anyway, I have to think that your quickness in declaring my little note to be nonsensical is atypical of an educated person. You can easily verify for yourself the truth of my statements that Rapeseed Oil is unpalatable to Canadians and Americans, and that rapeseed oil was used to lubricate steam engines.