Living with Nature - School on Blog
Lesson: Alternative fuel from plants that grow wild and don't complete with food source. Coconut, corn and sugarcane are too expensive as alternative sources of fuel for our cars, home and industry. Besides, converting food into fuel will aggravate poverty condition specially in developing countries where millions of people are hungry and malnourished.
These examples of non-food plants for fuel open the avenue of discovering more in different countries. Why don't you add to our list?
Hanga, ripe fruits directly burn into yellowishblue flame. Benguet.
Consuelda (Euphorbia tirucalli) produces dieselfuel and locomotive oil. UST atop main building
Palomaria or bitaog (Ilk) (Calophylum inophylum)contains 60 percent oil in its seed, excellent for motor oil.
Its wood makes excellent furniture. UST Botanical Garden
Talahib (Saccharum spontaneum), relative of sugar cane produces ethanol for fuel and industrial uses.
Madre de cacao or kakawati (foreground) is the most popular firewood in the Philippines and the
tropics. Its branches are periodically pruned for
firewood. The tree lives for twenty to fifty years.
It thrives in arid wasteland. Lake Tikob, Tiaong,
Laguna
Living with Nature, AVR
Dr. Rotor, will you help me find someone who makes bitaog oil for cosmetic purposes. This is also called tamanu oil and abundant in Polynesia. Thank you.
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