Tonga

I recently return home from a marvelous trip to Tonga with about 25 other students and two professors from BYU. It was wonderful!

In short:

• When: May 8 – 22 (14 days, including 2 days of travel)
• Purpose of trip: Demonstrate to the Kingdom of Tonga how to convert coconut oil into biodiesel
• It went very well; we were given an audience with the honorable minister of agriculture, the honorable minister of tourism, and the husband of the princess (the Tongan prince).
• The government will decide what to do with the information.
• Yes, you really can convert coconut oil (and many other vegetable oils, including used cooking oil) to make diesel fuel

Photos

Over 300 photos from Katey O’Laughlin:

• Album 1
• Album 2
• Album 3

Photo albums hosted on the official EWB-BYU website:

• Vava’u Highlights
• Biodiesel Processing
• Coconut Highlights
• Liahona Highlights
• Tongatapu Highlights
• Travel Highlights
• Eua and Atata Highlights

Additional Information / News:

• 30 sec. news video from Daily Herald, SLC, hosted by youtube.com
• EWB-BYU website
• BYU News Release, 29 May 2007