Posted on 08/17/2011 9:53:34 AM PDT by decimon
Amid growing concern that using soybeans and other food crops to produce biodiesel fuel will raise the price of food, scientists have identified a new and unlikely raw material for the fuel: Alligator fat. Their report documenting gator fat's suitability for biofuel production appears in ACS' journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Rakesh Bajpai and colleagues note that most of the 700 million gallons of biodiesel produced in the United States (2008 data) came from soybean oil. The search for non-food sources of biodiesel already has identified a number of unlikely candidates, including spent oil from deep fryers in fast-food restaurants and sewage. The scientists realized that alligator fat could join that list. Each year, the alligator meat industry disposes of about 15 million pounds of alligator fat in landfills.
They showed in laboratory experiments that extracted oil from alligator fat can easily be converted into biodiesel. The oil actually was more suitable for biodiesel production than oil from some other animal fats. The gator biodiesel was similar in composition to biodiesel from soybeans, and met nearly all of the official standards for high quality biodiesel.
Who knew?
God bless our chemical engineers for discovering a new way to drain the lizard.
And lordy do the tail taste great -- when it's done right.
You would think we are driving stoves with the all food sources they are trying to shove down our gas tanks.
“shoot Lizabuth , SHOOT”
Troy Landry “Swamp People”
sounds like a new twist to Soylent Green...
Ya beat me to it.
“drain the lizard”
Ooooof......
Anyway, hope putting a gator in your tank works out better than putting a tiger in your tank. The last one they put in my tank turned out to be queer and it blew the engine.
;^)
I’ve heard whale oil is very good quality.
Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.....
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Alligators - even the little ones think they can take you and eat you. “When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait.” - Jerry Reed
And I thought ethanol was dumb! Where are they gonna get enough alligators to create a viable fuel industry? However, with all the pudgy parasites on the food stamp dole, Soylent Green biofuel doesn’t sound like such a bad idea. (Just kidding.)
The bacon plant that I haul for has the largest precook processing line in the nation and they ship 25,000 gal. of bacon fat a week, to a local bio plant
They also palletize the skins off the pork bellies and send them to El Paso, Tx. to be made in to pork rinds
0% waste
If they are just finding a use for the waste fat, it’s not like ethanol. They are not impacting the food supply, they are creating a new use for the byproducts.
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