Just yesterday, I had written about Germany imposing taxes on the biodiesel industry in the country, and a reason that worked out for the move was an excessive burden that the sector had been posing on the agriculture. However, here could be a solution for the problem, from where the Dutch could find respite – a commercial fishery in El Borboton, Honduras has worked out a way to produce biodiesel using fish guts, heads, skins and internal organs.
The (fish part) dump that’s left back after filtering for sale is cooked to produce about 300,000 gallons of fish oil fuel that carries a content of water, which has to be separated by heating to 90 degrees C. Then methanol, glycerin and other chemicals are added to make biodiesel before it can be used – currently only to run 8 buses and 10 trucks of the farm, and costs about a dollar less on each gallon in comparison to fossil fuel.
[Source: Treehugger]
