Rabbit Holes

A collection of interesting things I've seen in passing. These are my personal thoughts about what I think is cool.

• Jatropha curcas: A tropical flowering plant used to produce high-quality biodiesel

My math says that Jatropha can produce on average of 300L of oil annually. To use in unmodified regular diesel engines, $<5\%$ jatropha oil is recommended to be mixed with petroleum diesel. Jatropha wikipedia Jatropha yields Jatropha failures Biodiesel blends wikipedia

• Warp: Parallel threads which are tensioned while a weft is weaved through them to produce fabric

I think Warp and weft wikipedia Weaving clothes youtube

• Landfills: Humanity generates complicated waste. It's cool how this is handled

Most of what we throw away isn't bad. Energy is usually recovered from landfills, but I wish we could recover some raw materials. Maybe scavengers could do this?