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Business View Magazine
62 Business View – October
Energy
M
ake no mistake, Robert and Kelly King want
good things for their business But they’re
also quick to realize that without a healthy
industry surrounding their endeavors, any successes
they manage to achieve will at best be fleeting in nature.
Toward that end, the Hawaii-based couple has
engaged in the creation of coalitions whose missions
are to provide facts about biodiesel, including the
Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance – which both provides
a voice for those endorsing sustainable practices, but
to create a certification system that’ll provide a greater
degree of assurance to the quality, sourcing and
sustainability of U.S.-produced biodiesel.
In the past, Kelly King said, some in the industry
took advantage of loopholes in government incentives
domestically or pursued practices which led to
deforestation in international locales, both of which
cast the industry as a whole in a negative light. The
SBA’s main objective, as a result, is to work to separate
fact from myth while forwarding the causes of
understanding and acceptance.
Biodiesel these days can be produced to look and
operate similarly to traditional diesel fuel, typically
at a lower cost and with less negative impact on the
environment. Pacific Biodiesel has been recognized
for its practices by the U.S. Department of Energy,
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the
Solid Waste Association of America and the Industrial
Development Organization of the United Nations.
The company is researching crops from which
biodiesel feedstock can be most effectively extracted,
and its team has been boosted by preliminary results
of trials on crops such as sunflower, safflower and
camelina. Most of the crops being tested require 25
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