PermaKent Permaculture Ideas of J. Kent Hastings

A popular TreeHugger story reports that carbon neutral biodiesel fuel can be grown from trees. Biodiesel burns cleaner than petrodiesel.

. . .the Brazilian Copaifera langsdorfii, to use its botanical name, can be tapped not unlike a rubber tree, but instead of yielding rubbery latex it gives up a natural diesel. According to the nurseryman selling the trees, one hectare will yield about 12,000 litres annually.

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