Potentials of vegetable oil

• With 25% rapeseed in the crop rotation germany could cover 15% of its diesel consumption. To consider Germany is first of all an industrialized country with high energy consumption per head and secondly relatively closely settled.
• There are world-wide about 2,000 cultivation-worthy oil plants
• 12% of Africa (correspond 2.6% to the earth's surface) thus 3.6 millions km ² with oilpalm cultivated, can cover the hole world oil consumption. (World oil consumption approx. 3,600 billion litre. Earth's surface 136 millions km ². A oilpalm produces 10,000 Liter/ha/a). Naturally nobody wants an eighth of Aftika to be cultivated with oilpalm, but that is also not necessary because each country cultivates its own climaticadapted oil plants. Canola in Canada, soy in USA and Brasil, sonflowers in Spain, rapeseed in Germany...
• With used vegetable oil engines could run too. It is to be noted that this oil contains also fats. These set off down and can partially be used in the summer. Alternatively the is the need of a heatable tank and heatable lines. With modern injection systems you will need a very good working filtersystem.

Origin: Prof. Dr. E. Schrimpff "Potentiale und Perspektiven von Pflanzenölen als Energieträger" http://www.solarverein-muenchen.de/bioenergie/treibstoff_text.htm