New biodiesel to power mobile phone infrastructure in India

kunsjoi sent in a biodiesel story that didn’t once mention animal fat! Sorry, but if you read enough stories about alternative fuels you’d think that animal by-products were essential to the future of energy. However. In this case, the new fuel of the moment is to be derived from cotton and shrubbery, and if you want to tell all your friends about it, that’s no problem, because the fuel will be used to power the mobile phone infrastructure in India. A similar system is already in place in Nigeria, where they use groundnuts. Huh, huh, groundnuts. So what do the animal-based biodiesel people have going for them, besides some good press agents? A bazillion of pounds of increasingly concentrated animal waste that has to go somewhere or the entire factory farming system takes an economic hit while the planet takes another punch in the stomach. If people want renewable power sources, isn’t it about time they look at what grows? Link.