Our friend, the coconut, is branching from garnishing Girl Scout cookies, chocolate cake, and fruity fem-drinks to helping impoverished Pacific Island nations.{mosimage}
In response to the rapidly rising oil prices, these nations are working to use coconut oil as biofuel. Electricity companies in Vanuatu, Fiji, and Samoa are blending coconut oil and diesel and testing it on power generators.
Many of the Pacific Island nations spend more than $800 million a year on fuel imports, and if they could replace 50% of diesel imports with coconut oil, that import bill would be cut by 10%.
Via: Environmental News Network .
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