Already been done.
Posted on 04/28/2009 6:50:10 AM PDT by decimon
WASHINGTON — U.S. scientists have combined a discovery from a French garbage dump with breakthroughs in synthetic biology to come up with a novel method for turning plant waste into gasoline, without the need of any food sources.
A synthetic biology lab at the University of California San Francisco identified a compound able to use biomass to produce a gas that can be converted into a gasoline chemically indistinguishable from fossil-fuel based petroleum.
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Franco-Yanko biofuel ping.
Didn’t see this one posted.
Given time we will all be fossil fuel.
Undoubtedly the Demonrats will find some excuse for not allowing anyone to use it, just like they won’t allow drilling offshore.
Biomass to gas to catalytic intermediate to liquid gasoline. I estimate a cost per gallon of $ 12-30.
There’s a lot of bio waste in D.C.
Perfect, put it in production. The government will buy all you can make.
Until they start drilling the great untapped biomass wastelands of Nevada, aka The Grand Buffet Biomass Fields.
The only known substance to produce ever more of itself from thin air.
Already been done.
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.
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.
The plant is apparently up and running, but not as effectively as they had first hoped.
I think you've well summed it up.
With all the bagasses I see out shopping, they should never run out of feedstock.
Does it only work with French garbage?
Good point...to libs it’s not about the economy or the nation, it’s about power...nothing else.
Pretty fascinating little fact, that....
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.
My car turned into a driveway.
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