Pacific islands look to coconuts to cut oil costs
This seems to be picking up a little bit. I’m looking forward to seeing this take off, as if they can do it with coconuts, there might be other foodstuffs that they can do it with.
The one good thing about high fuel prices is that it sparks research into things like this. When gas was around $1.00/gallon, no one would have bothered doing this. Now that it’s near $3.00/gallon, the ridiculous is becoming the explored.
Pacific islands look to coconuts to cut oil costs - Yahoo! News
Electricity companies in Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa are testing blends of coconut oil and diesel to run power generators.
A report by the 20-member South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) has found that if Pacific island countries were to replace 50 percent of diesel imports with coconut oil then the region’s average import bill would be cut by 10 percent.
Papua New Guinea, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Samoa, Vanuatu, the Federated States of Micronesia, Tonga, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, the Cook Islands and Palau spend more than $800 million a year on fuel imports, SOPAC says.
