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About Bob Stuart
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I'm best on questions of the suitability of new technologies, but will try to keep up with retail offerings of hybrid vehicles too.

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Designing human-electric hybrids.

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International Human Powered Vehicle Association

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4th Annual Velomobile Seminar proceedings, many listserv postings.

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few academics, but my 1st prototype won a world championship, and I've lectured to engineers.

 
   

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Hybrid Vehicles - Can a biodiesel be produced from a dried flowers?


Expert: Bob Stuart - 9/24/2009

Question
Hi,
If there is anything to do with your dried flowers in home, it's throw them to the trush and plant one new. But is there anyway that this dried flowers all with their stems and all parts be used to produce oil or biodiesel? Please tell me if there is any company that can do this? Can you suggest some type of flowers that contain extractable oil? THANK YOU!


Answer
Chemically, there are possibilities, but it is not worthwhile to set up equipment unless there are many tons of very similar material available to handle.  You might want to save your flowers for many years, and then look for a biomass conversion facility and a way to haul your waste without a net energy loss.  If you want flowers and recycling, composting is nature's way to keep things going.  Flowers tend to have mostly volatile oils to carry scent away; seeds are a better source of oil.

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