Diesel from a Tree

Author picture Written by Jennifer Lance
Published on April 2nd, 2008
Posted in Renewable Energy, Transportation

diesel-tree.jpgI guess when diesel costs $4.29 a gallon, as it does here in Northern California, money really does grow on trees in the form of the diesel tree!  The Brazilian Copaifera langsdorfii can be tapped like a rubber tree, to yield natural diesel fuel.

Source: Treehugger 

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