Speaking of decentralized technology: as a poor engineering undergrad I worked on a waste biomass-to-oil project which could provide small agricultural villages enough diesel grade oil to run as many large generators as they could come up with. All done with a handful of discarded 55 gallon drums... And this was in the late 70s.
Speaking of decentralized technology: as a poor engineering undergrad I worked on a waste biomass-to-oil project which could provide small agricultural villages enough diesel grade oil to run as many large generators as they could come up with. All done with a handful of discarded 55 gallon drums... And this was in the late 70s.
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the technology has been around for 3-4 decades but it hasn't been cost competitive compared to oil from the ground and the product hasn't been very good. there have been a couple of innovations in the last several years that has kicked this technology over the top.