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Plant Leads To Bio-Fuel Alternative
WESH Channel 2 News
April 19, 2007
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- An Orlando Company, Xenerga Inc., said it's ready to start making state-of-the-art fuel right here in Central Florida.
The company thinks it'll be a boost to local agriculture and a way to keep the air cleaner, all while making us less dependant on foreign fuel, WESH 2 News reported. With all the diesel burning trucks, buses, pickups, and cars, the demand for diesel is high.
"We can make 1,600 gallons an acre," David Jarret of Xenerga Inc. said.
That's exactly why the Xenerga Company is all excited about a plant it's bringing in from Malaysia, called Jatropha.
It's seeds are about the size of an olive and when you squeeze them, you get oil which can easily be mixed with traditional diesel to make Bio-Diesel.
"We have the company FiltaFry," said Jarrett.
Jarrett's company has been recycling frying oil for years. This new plant added to their mix, seems perfect.
"It can grow in an area where oranges have been frozen out. It needs very little water. It has four different crops in one year," Jarrett said.
Right now, they're negotiating with a guy with 150,000 acres where they can farm near Lake Wales.
The company looks to build small bio-diesel refineries right around Orlando, Sanford and Kissimmee.
Ethanol may be the solution to high gas prices while Bio-diesel may turn the trick for buses and trucks, especially if the Jatropha plant is all that it promises.
This new plant seems to thrive on land where orange groves used to be.
The state's excited about the possibilities of a new, productive cash crop to add to existing agriculture.
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