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type="text/javascript"></script>Hello all,<br>
<br>
The shift to 'waste' animal parts based biodiesel is clearly becoming
serious. You've seen my report about the Darling rendering plant in San
Francisco. Last week there was a report about arctic shark and other
'by-catch' being used as biodiesel feedstock, and this week a NY Times
report on chicken plucking remnants being turned into 'waste for fuel'
biodiesel. See both reports below my signature.<br>
<br>
These are not isolated incidents. The 'biodiesel' industry, seeing that
anti agrofuel organisers are successfully turning cities like Berkeley
and Seattle
away from its obviously unsustainable plant based biofuels, is
desperately
grasping for another feedstock that it can pawn off to the public as
'sustainable' 'waste' 'recycling'. It is clear they've decided that
this feedstock is 'waste' animal parts and 'by-catch' from the
incredibly environmentally destructive factory animal farming and
factory fishing industries.<br>
<br>
This now makes our work to stop the local Darling animal biodiesel
plant critically important to the entire planet; because San Francisco
may well be the knock-out-the-keystone leverage point needed to flatly
reject, as inherently un-sustainable, any fuels made from factory ag
renderings and factory fishing by-catch.<br>
<br>
In the next few weeks, I am going to start an active coalition to
oppose factory animal and fishing based biofuels and will need
co-organizers. Please email me one-on-one at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:brookse32@aim.com">brookse32@aim.com</a> if you
are willing to attend a meeting once every two months or so to help
organize against the alarming rise of these animal based franken-fuels.<br>
<br>
Keep in mind, right now it is shark, chickens, pigs and cows. How long
will it be before Japan, or some other whaling country, decides to make
biodiesel out of whale blubber? We are rapidly and truly reverting to
the even more planet destroying nineteenth century energy paradigm if
we don't put a stop to this now!<br>
<br>
Please RSVP.<br>
<br>
Eric Brooks - <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:brookse32@aim.com">brookse32@aim.com</a><br>
<br>
Here are the reports:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.greendiary.com/entry/artek-plans-to-produce-biofuel-from-shark/">http://www.greendiary.com/entry/artek-plans-to-produce-biofuel-from-shark/</a><br>
<br>
<div class="title"><b> ARTEK plans to produce biofuel from sharks</b> </div>
<a href="http://aditij.instablogs.com/">Aditi Justa</a> | Jul 20 2009 <br>
<p><span>Researchers at the Arctic Technology Center in Sisimiut in
Western Greenland are on their way to producing <span
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class="IL_LINK_STYLE">biofuel</span> from sharks’ oily flesh. A lot of
research and experiments are being undertaken for this purpose. The </span><a
href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jZYaPI6X7WN8mk_GAsM1-YGzW_ZQ">pilot
project</a><span>
funded by the EU in Uummannaq will use shark’s meat blended with
wastewater and macro-algae to form a fish mince to be further used to
produce <span class="IL_SPAN"><input name="IL_MARKER" type="hidden">biofuel</span>.
Thousands of Greenland sharks already lose their lives being trapped
into the deadly nets of the anglers. Hence, it’s a sensible way to
utilize the decaying bodies.</span></p>
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<p>In
order to utilize these dead beasts in a better way, Joegensen will
perform tests at the organic waste treatment plant. ARTEK’s innovative
solution will produces <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofuel">biofuel</a>
from sharks and other sea products, which could provide 13 percent of
energy consumption in the village of Uummannaq.</p>
<p>Although it is claimed that the Greenland sharks are not in danger
of extinction but the <a href="http://www.iucn.org/">International
Union for the Conservation of nature</a><span>
and the Danish branch of the Worldwide Fund for Nature do not quite
agree to this. Therefore, using sharks to produce biofuels does not
sound like a very good idea. It would rather be better to look for some
other <span
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class="IL_LINK_STYLE">sustainable energy</span> alternatives.<br>
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<b>The New York Times</b><br>
<div class="timestamp">July 28, 2009</div>
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A Recipe for Biodiesel, Plucked From Poultry
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<div class="byline">By <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/henry_fountain/index.html?inline=nyt-per"
title="More Articles by Henry Fountain">HENRY FOUNTAIN</a></div>
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<p>Those researchers in the department of chemical and materials
engineering at the <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_nevada/index.html?inline=nyt-org"
title="More articles about University of Nevada">University of Nevada</a>
in Reno are at it again. Last year they showed the world that it was
possible to make <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/b/biofuels/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier"
title="More articles about biofuels.">biodiesel</a> fuel from coffee
grounds. This time, it’s chicken feathers.</p>
<p> In a <a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf900140e"
title="Read the abstract.">paper</a>
in The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Mano Misra, Susanta
K. Mohapatra and colleagues describe how they extracted fat from
chicken feather meal and converted it into good-quality biodiesel. </p>
<p>Feather meal, which is commonly used as fertilizer or animal feed,
is a byproduct of large-scale poultry production and often includes
blood and offal. It can contain up to 11 percent fat.</p>
<p> The researchers extracted the fat by boiling the meal in water and
converting it to biodiesel by a process called transesterification. </p>
<p>They say that there is enough feather meal produced in the United
States alone to create about 150 million gallons of biodiesel a year.
That’s just a drop in the bucket, really, but the researchers note that
most current production of biodiesel uses vegetable oil, and as demand
for the fuel grows there is likely to be competition for the oil
between food uses and fuel uses. </p>
<p>Thus it’s important, the researchers say, to seek alternative
sources for biodiesel production — with the goal, as they put it, of
“food for hunger, waste for fuel.”<br>
</p>
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