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Renewable Friday: Wind Turbines >> Corn Ethanol [1]
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Date: 2025-05-23
In some good news, Olive oil has its health advantages over other forms of cooking oil, but now Olive waste is now being converted into Eco-Friendly fuel:
Entrepreneur Transforms Olive Waste into Eco-Friendly Fuel That Cuts CO2 Emission by One-Third
Sort of eco-friendly. At least it’s carbon neutral plant material grown in the sun. I am sure, however, that it emits other pollutants when burned.
A Tunisian entrepreneur has found a way to turn the thousands of tons of olive waste left over from making oil into fuel, reducing deforestation and carbon emissions.
Negotiating a fraught business environment, he found a way to start a flourishing enterprise called Bioheat, which sells briquets of olive waste both at home and abroad while employing 10 people.
Sandwiched between the vast nations of Libya and Algeria, the comparative sliver that is Tunisia punches way above its weight in agricultural production.
Olive cultivation goes back to Roman times, and the country’s rural households have traditionally used the olive waste as fuel or as animal feed. Tunisia is the third-largest olive oil producer in the world and the second-largest exporter of dates, and has relied heavily on the agro-economy for development.
With that mass of oil though comes mountains and mountains of byproduct. Eventually, the production of olive waste far outgrew the speed at which people employed it for feeding their stoves, and 600,000 tons of olive “pomace” pile up every year.
“I always wondered how this material could burn for so long without going out,” said Yassine Khelifi, an engineer who lives and works in the north of the country. “That’s when I asked myself: ‘Why not turn it into energy?'”...
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