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NNadir

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8. So what? My point was that it makes no difference how biodiesel is made industrially. I would expect...

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Reply #7)

Sat Nov 9, 2024, 04:37 PM

Nov 9

...that anyone who had a modicum of education that sunk in would know that making esters is not the big point about biodiesel, whereas the source is.

It is the source that is unsustainable.

I'm certainly not here gushing over trivial chemistry put out by university press releases, feeling the need to tell everyone about it, since my education sank in, whereas it appears that there are people who failed to grasp the meaning of even their high school educations, who find it necessary to report that a new approach to a trivial reaction somehow matters.

It doesn't.

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UC Santa Cruz: New chemical process makes biodiesel production easier, less energy intensive [View all] OKIsItJustMe Nov 9 OP

We're in a great position to reproduce the 1998 fires from Malaysian slash and burn rain forest clearing for biodiesel. NNadir Nov 9 #1

You're just set on autoflame aren't you? OKIsItJustMe Nov 9 #2

What's flaming is the planet. I just appeal to data. It reminds me a lot of Harry Truman's quip about Republicans... NNadir Nov 9 #3

The OP had nothing to do with growing crops to produce biofuels OKIsItJustMe Nov 9 #4

I'm a chemist. I've made methyl esters of fatty acids in the lab many times. In the old days, it was a standard... NNadir Nov 9 #6

I'm not impressed. I produced esters in High School... OKIsItJustMe Nov 9 #7

So what? My point was that it makes no difference how biodiesel is made industrially. I would expect... NNadir Nov 9 #8

Uh huh... OKIsItJustMe Nov 9 #9

By the way OKIsItJustMe Nov 9 #5