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Windpower and biodiesel in Nordfriesland, Germany

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The bright yellow blossoms of the rapeseed plant stretch towards the horizon. An array of wind turbines churn in the distance as seen from the window of a NEG passenger train on the line from Niebüll to the small harbor village of Dagebüll.
Rapeseed (Brassica napus) is grown for the production of animal feed, "canola" cooking oil and more extensively in recent years for biodiesel fuel.
Germany supplies about 10% of the world's supply of rapeseed.
Sales of German biodiesel, made almost exclusively from rapeseed, stood at two billion litres (about 600 million US gallons) in 2006. This amount was sufficient to meet the average yearly consumption of well over 2,000,000 automobiles. In Germany biodiesel is sold at a lower price than fossil diesel fuel.
Wind power accounts for about 6% of Germany's electricity production.

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Title: Windpower and biodiesel in Nordfriesland, Germany

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at 04:38 on July 4th, 2008

The bright yellow blossoms of the rapeseed plant stretch towards the horizon in this photo. An array of wind turbines churn in the distance can be seen from this snapshot from the window of a NEG passenger train on the line from Niebüll to the small harbor village of Dagebüll.
Rapeseed (Brassica napus) is grown for the production of animal feed, "canola" cooking oil and more extensively in recent years for biodiesel fuel.
Germany supplies about 10% of the world's supply of rapeseed.
Sales of German biodiesel, made almost exclusively from rapeseed, stood at two billion litres (about 600 million US gallons) in 2006. This amount was sufficient to meet the average yearly consumption of well over 2,000,000 automobiles. In Germany biodiesel is sold at a lower price than fossil diesel fuel.
Wind power accounts for about 6% of Germany's electricity production.