Michael Orton describes Widtsoe Institute's Farm Fuel Initiative

On Thursday Nov. 19th, 2009, a Renewable Energy Symposium was held on the Snow College Ephraim campus, with the primary topic being producing biofuel from seed crops grown locally, yielding a byproduct that can serve as food for livestock. In this model, the fuel feedstock is not competing with the food chain, but serves a symbiotic role.

Here I interview Michael Orton, who organized the event, and who sits as a board member on the Widtsoe Institute.

Their website will be up soon at http://WidtsoeInstitute.org

See our coverage at http://pesn.com/2009/11/25/9501590_Widstoe_Institute_seed-crop-biodiesel/

-- Sterling Allan

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• biodiesel
• alternative fuel
• renewable energy
• sustainable
• clean energy
• Snow College
• Central Utah
• Sanpete County
• Ephraim

[gatekeeper1006]

Sounds like this guy has a good idea for bio diesel for a medium to large scale farm. That kinda leaves us little guys out, I only have 10 acres

[gadzometer]

A company I worked for did this a few years ago Energy Developments Pty Ltd. They had a problem with the machine that sorts out the hard matter. It kept clogging the centrafuge and the company nearly went under because of it. The moved into LNG and managed to survive. This has been successfully done now by a couple of companies.

Also please look into Anaerobic digestion. Very interesting.