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Laos is making significant progress in its experiments to produce bio-diesel from soybean oil and used palm oil for use in vehicles in place of regular diesel.

The experiment began five months ago conducted by the Sustainable Tree Plantation and Livestock Promotion Association.

The bio-diesel is made from used palm oil and fresh processed soybean oil with organic additives made from crops in Laos .

To prove the success of the experiment, five vehicles were driven for almost 200km using the bio-diesel yesterday.

“The bus runs so smoothly I can't tell the difference between the bio-diesel in the tank now and the diesel I buy at the petrol station, even when the bus is going uphill,” said a bus driver, Amphone Sisoutham, who has worked in the job for 25 years.

He also said the exhaust fumes had a pleasant smell, a favourable comparison to the bad odours given off by diesel.

Another point in its favour, he said, was the fact that the engine did not overheat but maintained the same temperature as when using ordinary diesel.

“Yesterday, when I was informed that officials would drain my bus's tank of diesel, I was worried and called my director. I felt quite strongly we should not put bio-diesel in the tank, but I was surprised when the engine started right away,” said Mr Sisoutham.

He said the engine would have showed signs of trouble within 6 kilometres if the new fuel was causing any problems.

According to the association's electro-mechanical engineer, Mr Douglas A. Handisides, the bio-diesel can be used on its own or mixed with regular diesel.

He said it was not necessary to make any adjustments to a vehicle in order to use bio-diesel in the engine.

Importantly, there have been no reports indicating that any country owns a copyright to produce bio-diesel made from soybean oil and used palm oil, he added.

The president of the association, Mr Houmpheng Manipoun, said the experiment had not given any indication of the production costs, the price of the product or how many kilogrammes of soybeans were needed to produce one litre of bio-diesel.

He said the association would have to calculate this in the future to get more details before proposing any copyright for the product.

The experiment is in line with the Prime Ministerial decree on crop planting promotion to produce a source of energy, contributing to poverty alleviation.

The cost of the bio-diesel is expected to be lower than regular diesel because after oil is extracted from the soybeans, the residue can be sold as food.

Mr Houmpheng said that if the experiment proves production costs are less than the cost of diesel, Laos has a strong incentive to grow soybeans in large quantity

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-- Edited by samakomlao at 16:54, 2007-09-12

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That's a very good news for our country. I wish Laos will get nobel prize in the future!



-- Edited by samakomlao at 17:00, 2007-09-12

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Be very carefull with bio-diesel and other "new" technology like this... because they can be socialy and economicaly dramatic!!!!!

In this case, it looks not too bad, because the article say they use used palm oil (but for soybean, seems they need fresh ones!!)

Why dangerous? because you cannot live without food, but you can live without diesel/gaz... it would be difficult and uncomfortable, but you CAN

petrol/gaz become more and more rare, so more and more expensive... some people had this idea: let's try to make gaz with food/ agricultural products.

So you'll create a market: if this market is interesting, and it will be for sure, people will cultivate more and more products to make bio-diesel, and less and less for food (because land is not infinite). This mean little by little, you'll see food more rare, and prices for food grow up and up.... and one day, only rich people would be able to buy food... other can just die! this is terrific!

let's use land to produce food! i think it's much safer!!!!! That's what we really need.

Agro-diesel / bio-diesel is good only if they need products that we would not use any more for food, like rice "rubbish parts" or used oil.... in the case describe in this article, seems it's 50/50 (used oil is ok, but fresh soybean, not)

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Laos may become the first country to own the copyright on bio-diesel made from a soybean !
 
Wrong grammar? You can't make the bio-diesel from A soy bean. You should say to poduce the bio-diesel from soy beans, not from a soy bean.

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LOL. You beat me to it!

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Anonymous wrote:

Laos may become the first country to own the copyright on bio-diesel made from a soybean !
 
Wrong grammar? You can't make the bio-diesel from A soy bean. You should say to poduce the bio-diesel from soy beans, not from a soy bean.


This is so embarassing why do people openly point this out in such an unfriendly way. This forum should have a Private Messaging system so less posts like these show up.



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Must be a same guy over at Laohub[dot]com. He must liked go to around corrected other person gramma beacuz he thought he is so much gooder than all of us.

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I think it is good that someone help us correcting the mistake of grammar usages. English is important tools for communication and we should learn how to write and speak it correctly.



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Wow, it's a good news for such kind of development. BIG congratulation to all concerned parties der and hope that it will be user friendly and granted its copy right soon.biggrinbiggrinbiggrin



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