[AT] Canola to diesel

Dan Folske dfolske at nccray.net
Sat Feb 3 16:26:36 PST 2007


Several canola biodiesel plants are being built in North Dakota and
Saskatchewan.
Dan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "carl gogol" <cgogol at twcny.rr.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 5:35 PM
Subject: [AT] Canola to diesel


> Anyone else hearing interesting things about converting Canola to diesel
> fuel?  I believe that one efficiency study that said ethanol from corn was
> 18% energy positive calculated canola to diesel was in the range of 400%,
> using the same protocols.  Please don't hold me to these being the exact
> numbers, but the economics of canola are much more favorable.  It may have
> even been the Cornell study, but I think that their result was the ethanol
> from corn was about 20% to the bad.  Canola is easy to grow (at least in
the
> northern states and Canada) requires few inputs and is weather tolerant.
I
> know there is a small group in this area that is trying it on a very small
> scale, but are just getting underway.
> Anyone else doing anything with Canola?
>
> Carl Gogol
> Manlius, NY
> AC One Seventy diesel
> (2) AC D-14, AC 914H
> Simplicity 3112 & 7116
> Kubota F-2400
>
>
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