Could castor seeds create biofuel from castor seed?
A chance discovery of castor seeds while walking home from church is behind what might be a ground-breaking idea of creating biofuel from castor seed. Thabang Mabapa is a self-confessed curious social entrepreneur who might just have a viable alternative to the country¡¯s current fuel price crisis.
Is castor oil a disruptor in commercial farming?
He makes biofuel from castor oil extracted from castor trees and its growing demand is proving to be a disruptor in the commercial farming community. City Press met up with the Soweto-born innovator at his workplace, a laboratory at Wits University.
Can castor oil be used as feed stock?
Mabapa admits that, at the time, what he had in mind was mere castor oil which would still be a commercially viable product. When he returned to Wits, Nkazi asked him what he wanted to do with the oil and encouraged him to look at alternative uses. ¡°So I did some research and found that we can also use the castor oil as feed stock.