Swine in Bio Technology

Bio technology remains an approach every country will love going into in view of the global warming warnings and depletion of natural resource. Bio fuel would be viewed with most interest with oil reserves depleting fast worldwide and with respective countries having its own national development agenda. Bio fuel from animals is something that researchers are vividly looking into and North Carolina StateUniversity (NCSU) engineers had found that animal fats including hog can be turned into bio fuel known as "Centia" which is a derivative of Latin "green power".

Dr. William Roberts, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and director of the Applied Energy Research Laboratory at NC State, says that besides being “100 percent green,” the new technology has some key advantages.

“We can take virtually any lipid-based feedstock, or raw material with a fat source – including what is perceived as low-quality feedstock like cooking grease – and turn it into virtually any fuel,” Roberts says. “Using low-quality feedstock is typically 30 percent less costly than using corn or canola oils to make fuel.”

And it burns cleaner… good for the environment. Plus, NC State is using the glycerol produced from the biodiesel production to power the process. Since it has to work at high altitudes at temperatures as low as -70 degrees, the fuel works at extremely low temperatures.

Malacca pig farmers can take a cue from this discovery and perhaps build a research in MITC in collaboration with NCSU to start producing bio fuel from the 92,000 swine that the Melaka State Government through it's Chief Minister had instructed to be exported within 2 weeks. This not only provides the pig farmers as alternative but also grow in tandem with technology.

Since this bio fuel discovery could lead to the oil produced from hogs to be used as jet fuel, it could save the carriers fuel cost and help Malaysia to be in the forefront of bio technology. So the phrase "flying pigs" is right afterall but we have not heard of "flying monkey". So Melaka folks cannot ignore the fact that someday, we will see flying pigs in the Melaka airspace!

With such initiative, perhaps Melaka State Government will look into assistance into providing the necessary infra and funding to aid such research and development into producing environmental friendly jet fuel besides developing to the objectives of MITC as a forefront of bio technology. If such assistance is not being able to be rendered then it will definitely be a big blow to the technology drive initiative of the State Government.

Melaka State Government should not move away from such opportunity as the culling or export of 92,000 swine was initiated by the State Government and the Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak would discuss the matter with Malacca Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam before the problem becomes too complicated to resolve (as reported in The Star). Why create a problem when there's none?

Other potential usage of swine are documented here and yet profitable with zero waste.

If chicken is healthy then why and how bird flu happens when culling had to be the answer? Is chicken farming monitored and clean? What about mad cow disease? In fact cats can also spread zoonotic diseases to humans.

1. How about exploring this Melaka State Government?
2. Can the same "close one eye" be applied here as compared to a sinner case of illegal imports
from neighbouring country?
3. Perhaps major contracts in the State monopolize by a single person?
4. Perhaps the land or within the vicinity had been earmarked for some development benefitting
"people"?
5. Is there any improvement and promises met to people of Machap after the Machap by-
election?

We rakyat don't know the answer and ulterior motives if any, but the answer lies in the people elected into the corridors of power and rakyat fooled into electing them.

God, please help bangsa Malaysia (not including the "UMYES" flers)!