Mmmmmmmmmm.................pig lard
Posted on 08/05/2008 10:28:05 AM PDT by pabianice
HOUSTON -- A company based near the Woodlands has carved out a nifty niche in the renewable energy market by converting animal and vegetable waste nobody wants into ''green" electricity.
Bio Fuels Power once hoped to make renewable fuel for vehicles but switched direction when high commodity prices made the process too expensive.
Instead, the company focused on converting very low cost feedstock like pig lard and chicken fat into a biofuel that could be burned to produce electrical power.
"Power generation does not need the quality fuel thats required for transportation," says Bio Fuels Power founder Steve McGuire.
Two Bio Fuels Power generating plants with a combined capacity of 15 megawatts are currently pumping electricity directly into the Texas grid.
"The exhaust is clean and clear, so there are no emissions," says BFP'S CEO Fred O'Conner.
The company believes their pilot plants can be easily reproduced across the country reducing pollution and dependence on fossil fuels.
R-r-r-r-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ght!
Mmmmmmmmmm.................pig lard
biofuel ping
I admit to being poor in chemistry and anything to do with that type of thing, but I have wondered if anybody is looking at using human waste? If not, is that something that can be converted into electricity? Let’s face it - it’s something that we’ll never run out of. And some places produce an excess of it, such as in Washington DC when the House and Senate Democrats are in town! After all, they are all full of......well, you know....!
You mean liberals?
If not, is that something that can be converted into electricity?
Only hot air...
Sorry couldn't keep serious.
Feces/Dung are an age old burning material used by all cultures around the globe. Sure, why not large scale? (Except I wouldn't want to live near the plant.)
I wish someone would figure out how to make fuel out of all the dog doo we’re forced to package so nicely in plastic bags where it will never do anyone any good. Granted, I have an English Mastiff who produces a lot in a day so I’m really annoyed that his “bi-product” is going to the dump and won’t ever decompose...
Highest & best use of pig lard: breaded, deep-fat fried, then dipped in cholesterol sauce.
Mmmmmmmmmmm............crunchy lard nuggets, with nacho cheese dressing.
Wouldn’t touch’m myself, but I was thinking of selling them to the NASCAR crowd; they’ll eat anything dipped & fried.
Ethanol and other products do provide a solution on limited scales.
The USA will succeed in coal oil extraction technology and it will be a huge strategic boon for us.
But right now better off just buying a gallon of gas.
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