Biodiesel

Bioethanl Lab

Organic bio mass=bioethanol

wast=paper+ethanol biofuel

Biodiesel 

"Biodiesel is a renewable, clean-burning diesel replacement that is reducing U.S. dependence on foreign petroleum, creating jobs and improving the environment. Made from a diverse mix of feedstocks including recycled cooking oil, soybean oil, and animal fats, it is the first and only EPA-designated Advanced Biofuel in commercial-scale production across the country and the first to reach 1 billion gallons of annual production. Meeting strict technical fuel quality and engine performance specifications, it can be used in existing diesel engines without modification and is covered by all major engine manufacturers’ warranties, most often in blends of up to 5 percent or 20 percent biodiesel. It is produced at plants in nearly every state in the country."http://www.biodiesel.org/what-is-biodiesel/biodiesel-basics

Steps for Homemade Biodiesel 

1. get used oil from fast food restaurants 
2. filter out all the particles
3. treat filtered oil chemically: mix at a specific temperature with the equivalent of drain o
4. can produce a side product: glycerin (used to make soaps and candles)

The Benefits of Urban Gardens!!!!!!

http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/urbanag/steps.htm

Needs & Concerns

• Most people are not aware of how to work a garden or the benefits of a garden
• Lack of education 
• A way to empower people
• Concern that there may be contamination in the soil of urban gardens because of the pollution in urban landscape

Societal Benefits

• Increase a sense of community ownership and stewardship
• Foster the development of community identity
• Create unity across a vast variety of backgrounds
• Builds community leaders
• Effective crime prevention
• Educational tool for youth
• Food Production
• Green space reduces stress and increases a sense of wellness

Environmental Benefits

• Heighten appreciation for living things and nature
• Filters rainwater keeping streams, rivers, and lakes clean
• Restores oxygen to the air reducing air pollution
• Recycles natural foliage and waste back into the soil
• Creates an oasis from urban life

Soils & Rocks

12 Soil Orders of the World
1. Gelisols-soils with permafrost within 2m of the surface
2. Histosols-organic soils
3. Spodosols-acid forest soils with a subsurface accumulation of metal-humus complexes
4. Andisols-soils formed in volcanic ash
5. Oxisols-intensely weathered soils of tropical and subtropical environments
6. Vertisols-clayey soils with high shrink/swell capacity
7. Aridisols-CaCO3 containing soils of arid environments with subsurface horizon development
8. Ultisols-strongly leached soils with a subsurface zone of clay accumulation and <35% base saturation
9. Mollisols-grasslands soils with high base status
10. Alfisols-moderately leached soils with a subsurface zone of clay accumulation and >35% base saturation
11. Inceptisols-soils with weakly developed subsurface horizons
12. Entisols-soils with little or no morphological development

http://www.cals.uidaho.edu/soilorders/orders.htm

Soil Types of Georgia
Sand, clay and loam make up the three main soil types of Georgia.  There are, however, combinations of these three with various additives, such as salt, rock and various sediments.
Georgia's primary soil order is ultisols.  Within this order there are 5 suborders: Aquults, Humults, Udults, Ustults, and Xerults.

Micaceous Schist (Metamorphic Rock)
Mica Schist is mostly composed of more than 50% tabular and elongated minerals with grain sized coarse enough to be visible to the unaided eye.  Schists have a developed tendency to split into layers.  It is made up of many layers and if this rock is struck it will break along a particular cleavage; thus the word schist is derived from the Greek word meaning 'to split'.