Bean Machines - Diesel fuel from soybeans gains traction.

Machine Design Magazine ^ | 28 Sep 2006 | Lawrence Kren

[Red Badger]

Grow food or fuel? BOTH!.........You can have your cake and eat it, too!........

[EagleUSA]

I can see it now at the grocery store -- soy bean oil, $3.23 a gallon !!!!!

[Red Badger]

It's more expensive than that, now.........

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Grow food or fuel? BOTH!.........You can have your cake and eat it, too!........

Same is true of corn ethanol, despite what many whazoo-apertures around here say.

[EagleUSA]

It's more expensive than that, now.........
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Just wait until the libs in California find out about it -- they will try and put a tax on that too. (Proposition 87 for the Californians in the crowd).

[Dark Skies]

Beans, beans, the mechanical fruit,
The more you burn, the more you scoot.

[taxcontrol]

I think you could genetically cross the soybean and the kudzu and create a rapid growth, high oil output, cellulose (ethanol) product that would just about solve all of our problems.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Whozoo ?

[isthisnickcool]

Beans, beans, the musical fruit, the more you eat the more you toot. The more you toot the better you feel so please eat beans at every meal.

[azhenfud]

I invision futures in chicken and pork fat rising.

[Red Badger]

I would like to see a comparison of how much Diesel/Biodiesel per acre can be made versus ethanol per acre of corn. Any clues?..........

[MineralMan]

What was that joke that ended:

Soybean make the fart go Honda....

[MD_Willington_1976]

That and coal oil and things should work out just fine.

[Red Badger]

Abcess make the fart go Honda...........

[The_Reader_David]

The real trick will be genetically modifying soy bean plants so that the fix enough nitrogen that you can havest the soybeans (sell the nice ones at a premium as edamame, and turn the rest into biodiesel and cattle feed) and don't need to fertilize the field to plant corn the next year. (Most of the farm-related energy cost of ethanol is in the fertilizer.)

Unfortunately, as I understand it naturally occuring soybean plants don't fix nitrogen efficiently enough: it seems to get a net increas in soil nitrogen you have to plow the whole crop under, soybeans and all.

[Red Badger]

Soy-zu-ki........

[azhenfud]

Regular or hi-test soy?

[mtbopfuyn]

Soybean make the fart go Honda....

Mazda will have to change their "Zoom zoom zoom" to "Toot toot toot".