Yahoo! NewsI don't live this far north but I might start taking a second look at all the dead carp floating in Cherokee lake HMMM maybe a new place to collect my feedstock?!

I read the entire article and there is no mention of biodiesel, but thanks Mr. Till for reminding us you are still active on this board until your one-year registration grace-periods run out.

It does however talk about mixing dead whale meat with sewage to produce methane for heat. Maybe we should try that here in the states?

please don't accuse me of being tilly I don't think I have his poetic intellect and this thread isn't about biodiesel its about general energy even tho you could use shark tallow to produce BD in my case carp tallow as long as I have enough WVO I don't plan on collecting dead carp lol

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"We are opposed to the commercial use of marine mammals, such as the Greenland shark, which is not universal and whose population size is unknown," she [Anne-Marie Bjerg, a WWF specialist on ocean mammals] said.

Wow, that is a new one... Marine Mammal expert having troubles classifying sharks. But, I did some reading and discovered that while most people don't consider them as mammals, they are most extraordinary animals, including some having very mammalian-like reproductive systems.

I do agree that it is a bit of a slippery slope. But, I have no problems with "recycling" accidentally killed aquatic life, realizing, of course, that dead carcasses are likely just part of the food chain in the ocean.

One should, of course, encourage the fishermen to use all means possible to "safely" extract the unwanted species from the nets if they can be returned to their habitat alive.

The article discussed "biofuel". Not specifically biodiesel. Typically people have troubles with biodiesel from animal fats. But, perhaps fat from an arctic "fish" would have a lower melting point and would be easier to work with that mammalian fats.