Adding Peanuts to the Pump
Move over, soybeans and com: Peanuts may be elbowing their way into the biodiesel fuel market. Agricultural Research Service (ARS; www.ars.usda. gov) scientists are searching for economically feasible peanut varieties for that very purpose.
Agronomist Wilson Faircloth at the ARS National Peanut Research Laboratory in Dawson, GA, and Daniel Geller, a collaborative engineer at the Univ. of Georgia (Athens; www.uga. edu), are testing a peanut called Georganic. It's not up to commercial edible standards for peanuts, but is high in oil and has low production costs.
Georganic - or similar varieties - will likely be the future of peanut biodiesel …
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