Originally Posted by
monsterbaby
Another point on commercial biodiesel not all of it is being produced by vegetable oil. One of the local business owners I have helped getting into bio a few years ago then researched and built a plant next to a couple of slaughter houses and uses animal fat from them to commercially produce bio.
He is also studying and watching the algae process and we have discussed setting up a facility for producing algae based bio too.
That is a good idea -- to use the slaughter byproducts, haven't heard that one yet. Read an interesting article the other day about feeding algae to fish so that the fish can process the oils (thus removing the energy-hungry centrifuges and pumps that are usually required to process the algae), then mashing up the fish (sucks to be fish) to produce a fish oil that could then be transformed into a combustible fuel.