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Long-abandoned bacterial fermentation process converts sugar directly to diesel
Phys.org ^ | 11-07-2012 | Provided by University of California - Berkeley

Posted on 11/07/2012 12:40:41 PM PST by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

“What I am really excited about is that this is a fundamentally different way of taking feedstocks...”

Right about ‘feedstocks’ is when he should have realized this is a bad idea.


21 posted on 11/07/2012 2:14:15 PM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: Red Badger

Convert sewage to fuel. Well understood process and plenty of feedstock that is a problem to dispose of.


22 posted on 11/07/2012 2:20:59 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: GingisK

Because the feedstocks come from plants that take carbon out of the air, putting it back into the air for more plants to take out again, it is considered ‘carbon neutral’.

Never mind the fact that the transportation an fermentation processes use energies that are adding more carbon than you stared with......


23 posted on 11/07/2012 2:34:43 PM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: Red Badger

I bet what puts the libs in a rage is the fact that they have to base their work from a jew who did it 100 years ago and was also the first president of Israel.

That must burn a few butts at Berkeley...


24 posted on 11/07/2012 2:36:51 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Red Badger

Bump to read later.


25 posted on 11/07/2012 2:40:50 PM PST by techcor (I hope Obama succeeds, in being a one term president.)
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To: Abathar

I’m surprised that they even mentioned it in the article........


26 posted on 11/07/2012 2:59:16 PM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: Red Badger

Sugar fuelled Diesel/electric traction.
[sarc] Can’t think of a better use for Sugar.[/sarc]
Thanks for that post, very interesting.


27 posted on 11/07/2012 10:40:33 PM PST by moose07 (The truth will out, one day.)
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To: slowhandluke
Well, maybe we could suggest raising the C02 levels to 1000ppm or higher to greatly increase the production of biomass?

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Actually, that would be very useful. More CO2 means faster plant growth with less water. More CO2 means it will be easier to feed the world.

Screw the greenhouse effect concerns. CO2 is still going up and temperatures have gone down a little over the last 15 years. Man Made Global warming is a hoax.

It is considered “carbon neutral” because the plants convert the CO2 in the air to plant and we burn it and just put it back into the air again. The same carbon over and over again with sunlight changing the CO2 and water into products we can use as fuel. It is neutral because after the plant dies the carbon will decay into CO2 anyway.

I can't believe there are people who still believe in man made global warming, FIFTEEN YEARS!

28 posted on 11/08/2012 7:59:06 AM PST by JAKraig (Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: Red Badger

Thry should get some of the free money from DOE for green energy and go at it.


29 posted on 11/09/2012 12:32:51 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Their application is probably already in process...


30 posted on 11/09/2012 12:34:58 PM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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