Lanie
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Activities: Wednesday July 7, 2009
- Divik finished weeding the sugarcane and weeded part of the tropical cane parts of the energy garden
- Eric helped Divik with some of the weeding
- Divik, Eric and Ryan went to Lowes and bought connector parts for the solar thermal panels
- Danielle, Christa and Lanie shelled peanuts which will be used to extract oil through the oil press later this week
- Eric did some technician/ welding/ engineering based work on the press to more efficiently optimize it for food based oil extraction purposes
- At the end of the day, Dr. Wilkie talked to all of the interns about future field trips and bioenergy school research and educational plans
Link for Oil Press
Below is the link Dr. Wilcki gave me about our oil press. I suggest clicking on the click on the webpage that shows the oil yeilds for diffrent nuts and seeds.
thanks,
Christa
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
7/07
We made biodiesel out of peanut, sunflower and used vegetable oil!
Also had time to do some weeding
Attempted to press jatropha seeds
Eric fixed up the new press
Some time also for work on individual projects
Also had time to do some weeding
Attempted to press jatropha seeds
Eric fixed up the new press
Some time also for work on individual projects
Monday 07/06
Sorry for the late post, first time I've been on a computer in a while
-Started the day off working on our crops and our individual projects
-Listened to two presentations from Scott on Biodiesel
-Discussed the pros and cons of biodiesel
-Started the day off working on our crops and our individual projects
-Listened to two presentations from Scott on Biodiesel
-Discussed the pros and cons of biodiesel
FARE Conference: Saturday 7/7/09
Hello Interns,
As mentioned today, both through e-mail and verbally, there is a FARE (Florida Alliance For Renewable Energy) conference this Saturday in Largo, Florida starting at 11 A.M. In order to attend, you must be a member. To be a member, you have to pay a $25 membership fee.
If you are interested in carpooling, please contact me beforehand so I can coordinate accordingly. Don Davis (president of Capital City Bank in Gainesville, FL) plans on leaving Gainesville at 7:30 A.M. that day and will have breakfast with the carpoolers while travelling to Largo. He will leave from the Capital City Bank on the intersection of NW 8th Avenue and Newberry Road, close to the Oaks Mall.
Largo is close to St. Petersburg, so the driving time should be around 2.5-3 hours.
Below is the website address:
http://www.floridaallianceforrenewableenergy.org/Join_FARE.html
From,
Divik Schueller
(352) 281-9037
divik@ufl.edu
As mentioned today, both through e-mail and verbally, there is a FARE (Florida Alliance For Renewable Energy) conference this Saturday in Largo, Florida starting at 11 A.M. In order to attend, you must be a member. To be a member, you have to pay a $25 membership fee.
If you are interested in carpooling, please contact me beforehand so I can coordinate accordingly. Don Davis (president of Capital City Bank in Gainesville, FL) plans on leaving Gainesville at 7:30 A.M. that day and will have breakfast with the carpoolers while travelling to Largo. He will leave from the Capital City Bank on the intersection of NW 8th Avenue and Newberry Road, close to the Oaks Mall.
Largo is close to St. Petersburg, so the driving time should be around 2.5-3 hours.
Below is the website address:
http://www.floridaallianceforrenewableenergy.org/Join_FARE.html
From,
Divik Schueller
(352) 281-9037
divik@ufl.edu
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Best Site Ever
http://faostat.fao.org/site/567/DesktopDefault.aspx?PageID=567#ancor
For all our crop information needs.
-Lanie
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