[Gasification] Help with Reproductive Biomass and Pine Cones

[Jeff Davis]

Dear Tom & List,


I think limonene is a terpene and pine trees have terpene. I remember
reading that some old engines (boat?) used something like that, from pine
tree stumps/roots, as a fuel.


Jeff


Tom wrote:
> Orange and other citrus fruits have a LOT of limonene in them which is
> easily recoverable.  It is a high octane fuel.  I have run my lawnmower
> on pure limonene (from Belize).  And it smells great.  Probably most of
> it is not currently recovered to keep the price high, but it will be
> once the word gets out.
>




-- 
Jeff Davis

Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA