Lab finds new method to turn biomass into gasoline

Reuters ^ | Apr. 21, 2009 | Jasmin Melvin

[decimon]

Franco-Yanko biofuel ping.

Didn’t see this one posted.

[screaminsunshine]

Given time we will all be fossil fuel.

[phoenix07]

Undoubtedly the Demonrats will find some excuse for not allowing anyone to use it, just like they won’t allow drilling offshore.

[pabianice]

Biomass to gas to catalytic intermediate to liquid gasoline. I estimate a cost per gallon of $ 12-30.

[bgill]

There’s a lot of bio waste in D.C.

[Tarpon]

I estimate a cost per gallon of $ 12-30.

Perfect, put it in production. The government will buy all you can make.

[randog]

I estimate a cost per gallon of $ 12-30.

Until they start drilling the great untapped biomass wastelands of Nevada, aka The Grand Buffet Biomass Fields.

[decimon]

There’s a lot of bio waste in D.C.

The only known substance to produce ever more of itself from thin air.

[Jack of all Trades]

How much capital expense are you amortizing over whet period? What are your assumed feedstock cost?

[dfwgator]

Already been done.

[marvlus]

From the article:

With improvements in the rate of production from genetic engineering, Voigt estimates that gasoline could be produced at $1.65 per gallon from sugar cane bagasse.

He expects fuel from cellulosic sources like poplar would be cheaper at $1.10 to $1.30 a gallon. But creating reliable cost models at this point is hard since there are no cellulosic fuel crops in production to base an estimate on, he said.

[Hodar]

WE really haven't heard a peep from 'Changing World Technologies' and their waste by-products into oil process. They apparently have 2 factories up and running, and with Oil at the recent $120+/barrel high, they should have been raking in the bucks as they claim they can 'create' oil for ~$25/barrel.

The plant is apparently up and running, but not as effectively as they had first hoped.Thermo Depolymerization Process

They initially said they could make oil for $15/barrel from turkey offal. Now, they are barely surviving - but the idea is functional.

[decimon]

WE really haven't heard a peep from 'Changing World Technologies'...

The plant is apparently up and running, but not as effectively as they had first hoped.

I think you've well summed it up.

[decimon]

Voigt estimates that gasoline could be produced at $1.65 per gallon from sugar cane bagasse.

With all the bagasses I see out shopping, they should never run out of feedstock.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Does it only work with French garbage?

[ontap]

Good point...to libs it’s not about the economy or the nation, it’s about power...nothing else.

[r9etb]

Labs can now design a piece of DNA on a computer, email it to a DNA synthesis company and have the actual DNA mailed to them in a matter of weeks.

Pretty fascinating little fact, that....

[Secret Agent Man]

Sounds worthy of more research. Much better than ethanol.

Of course the left won’t fund this. Anything that acutally allows Americans to use more gasoline (and thus does not knock our standard of living down) is bad. If this can help keep gas prices down and gas supplies up, the left will hate it and not support it.

[Dan(9698)]

turning plant waste into gasoline

My car turned into a driveway.