Well now I've been looking into this ethanol thingy,and here in New Zealand it seems that my local gas station has up to 10% ethanol in the fuel,a by product of the dairy industry.My 916 has a steel tank,but makes me wonder what is it doing to my engine,fuel system etc,it's only 5 cents cheaper than BP fuel,and I don't want my bike growing udders and going moooooo!!!even if it has open exhausts.would look interesting though!
Are you sure that the Dairy Industry supplies Ethanol for fuel in NZ?, I thought we (I work for Fonterra) only supplied Ethanol for Spirits and Alcopops etc. I was under the impression that fuel ethanol was supplied by the Petro-chemical Industry from a plant in Taranaki.
Yes, after a bit of research I see that it is so, used by Gull in the North Island and made by us (Fonterra/Anchor) at Tirau and 2 other plants, should pay more attention at work eh.
Well you could make Ethanol from the Meatworks waste, plus Bio-Diesel from the fats/oils from the carcass as well, so yes, you could.
A lot less down here nowadays as well, I work at the worlds largest Dairy Factory, at Edendale here in Southland, can process over 15 million litres of milk a day, it has the 3rd biggest Milk Dryer in the world here producing up to 24 Tonnes of Milk Powder per hour, the 2 biggest Dryers are in Clandeboye and Darfield in Canterbury. NZ only consumes 3% of the Dairy product it makes, the rest is exported. So the men of Gore are finding it hard to get a date these days.
@NZDave That's one hell of a lot of milk processed in one day Dave, the machinery involved sounds interesting. Impressive numbers!
The site has 4 Milk Dryers, Cheese dept. making 45 vats a day, a Milk Fat Dept. making AMF (pure milk fat with no water) for Confectionary and Hospitality, a Casein Dept. and Lactose Dept., and various other Dept. making specialty products, we don't make final products but ingredients, e.g. Cheese blocks are 20kg. I actually don't work in the Factory but in the Waste Water Treatment Plant and Irrigation Dept. we deal with 8 - 10 million litres of WW per day. The Milk Collection team have 84 Tankers and Trailers holding 25,000 litres each on the road 24hrs a day collecting milk from all over the lower 1/2 of the South Island.
