PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Power of the Cotton Plant
The waste oil from cottonseed can be used to power cars and other vehicles.
How do they do it?
- Glandless cotton is used to produce high quality foods. The oil from it is used to fry. The used oil is taken to a lab and is mixed to create biodiesel.
- Before doing all of this, though, they have to extract something called gossypol, which is a highly toxic chemical in cotton that is uses as a defense from pests.
There is more that comes out when you squeeze the gossypol out, you also get a protein that is usually shipped to the coast to feed shrimp.
Not only is cotton used for biodiesel and shrimp food, but also, a cooking oil can be squeezed out of it. This oil is called gin-byproduct and is only edible after the gossypol is eliminated by going through a machine built for cancer treatment.
Ribonucleic Acid Interference is what it is called and it works by reducing the size of cells, therefore reducing the amount of unwanted material.
And last but not least, cotton is all over you, yep, your clothes, the white part of the cotton plant is used by having the black seeds taken out of it, then being spun and stretched, and as a result, making a thin, somewhat durable and sewable fabric and string.
All of the things such as the biodiesel and shrimp food have been found out by the University of Texas. They take the oil and use it to fry at the campus cafeteria, then taking the used oil to make biodiesel to fuel the irrigation pumps in the Ag department.
Then, the protein that is extracted is used to feed the experimental shrimp on campus, then is served in the cafeteria at the annual shrimp feed.
