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Honge Biodiesel

Posted on June 22, 2007

Two articles from Good News India, Dr.U.Shrinivasa dreams of a biodiesel future based on Pongamia Pinnata and Natural diesel alternatives are beginning to deliver, describe a using straight vegetable oils from honge trees for fuel.Dandeli Ferroalloys uses honge oil for all five of their 1 megaWatt diesel engines. In the short time that it has been used, a year perhaps (the article wasn't very clear on that), they had generated 760,000 kWH of energy entirely from honge oil and were planning on continuing its use.In villages around Kagganahalli, honge oil is being used for water pumping. They mi...

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