Remember a few months back the discussions around whether Sunx would be able to supply enough algaeoil for their "investors" to be able to meet their supply needs.
Well, it seems Sunx have dropped the algaeoil aspect and are now going to offer - wait for it - palm oil.
Palm oil that comes from Malaysia, Indonesia and other locales around that part of the world. A part of the world that does not give a shirt that on a daily basis, square miles of pristine old world rain forests are being cleared and burnt, so that palm tree plantations can be put in.
All I can say to any potential Sunx "investor" reading this - if you go ahead and buy a SunX licence and start producing biodiesel from Palm oil be prepared for a back lash from the tree huggers. It may or may not impact on you significantly but they will picket your operation - bet on it.
Palm oil sucks i had a million gallons coming my way untill i stuck some in the refrigerator and it "froze' at forty five F they tried to bullshit me withb this logis well itll work south of thebmason dixon line.. LOLOL. needless to say after testing it in small quantities i canceled the shipment.might work fine in the tropics but not here...
Marc
Indeed, palm oil is bad news for SE asian rainforests, but treehuggers are not the only ones to fear. As if the deforestation wasn´t bad enough, many oil palm nurseries are constructed on peat bogs. Peat is kind of a less-fossilized fossil fuel, that remains intact because of anaerobic conditions, since its covered in water. These peat bogs are too wet for oil palms, the water is pumped away, exposing the peat to air, which makes it oxidise naturally. The result: a huge CO2 emission from a source that would otherwise would have been released, like fossil fuels. Not everyone agrees, but this means it takes somewhere around 10 years before an oil palm nursery for biodiesel actually reduces "fossil" CO2 emissions, assuming no fossil source is consumed in the whole palm oil biodiesel process.
So I don´t see a speck of green in this green option
(of course there are plenty sustainable oil palm nurseries aswell)
Agreed. Way unclean, and bad news for the earth.