Alaskan's go fishing to find new auto fuel

Now the science that turns vegetable oil into fuel can do the same with fish.

The Alaskan fish-processing industry generates some 3.5 million gallons of fish-oil byproduct that's discarded as waste each year. Authorities would like to be able to turn that into a viable clean-energy source. Pacific Bio diesel is converting 5,000 pounds of Alaskan fish oil into bio diesel from the Alaska Energy Authority for a pilot project funded in part by the U.S. Department of Energy. The authority is trying to gain insight into how well raw fish oil works for bio diesel, which is well-established nationwide as a viable fuel source.

The bio diesel from fish oil will be blessing to the remote villages in Alaska as it can be made locally for use in their generators, vehicles etc. The project is expected to be complete by July. Afterward, a number of different scenarios could then unfold, one of which is a bio diesel processing plant in Alaska that could be built by Pacific Bio diesel. The Alaska Energy Authority first wants to see test results. Pacific Biotech, considered an authority on bio-diesel fuel, offers two basic plant configurations.





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