Pacific Biodiesel began harvesting its 14-acre field of sunflowers Friday. The combine, purchased from a Northern California family farm, reaps, threshes and winnows oil-rich sunflower seeds from ...

This new process is 45 times more efficient and requires 45 times less land than traditional soybean-based biodiesel production. The results of their work are published online in Joule.

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