Biodiesel

[WBusa]

The part I found that under was for meeting the LD50 toxicity rating

You have to take LD50 values for what they are... very rough estimates of the RELATIVE toxicity of chemicals. They're determined by feeding various amounts of a chemical to largish numbers of rats or bunnies... the amount that kills 50% of the critters is then multiplied by a scaling factor for the difference between the size of the critter and the size of a human, and there's yer LD50. Like I say, its just a rough measure... good for distinguishing whether something is really really toxic (say, cyanide) or merely kinda toxic (say, biodiesel).



Pity the poor critters... LD50 studies ain't a pretty sight.

 

[DThelen]

I'd say if they chould sell bio diesel at a $1. 75 a gallon and make money. At $2. 30 a gallon ( wich is what it is up town right now) They should be making enough to exspand and hopfully it would help the price go down on fuel. Soybeans are still only $6. 00 dollars a bushal.

 

[ndurbin]

First off I would like to thank everyone who posted.



I gave the speech yesterday. Don't know what grade I will get but I thought it went pretty well and so did a few other kids in the class. Did go over my time limit tho, was only suppose to be 3-5 min. , I was up there for almost 10.



Thanks again

Nathan

 

[WBusa]

Hey, thank you, ndurbin, for helping to spread the word. The coolest thing about teaching (heck, maybe the only cool thing) is the potential it presents you to slowly but surely change the world. Biodiesel needs all the exposure it can get. The thirty or so folks who listened to your presentation will each mention biodiesel to somebody else, who'll mention it to somebody else, who'll... . I can hear the world changing as I speak!