Posted on 06/28/2006 10:00:48 AM PDT by francke
Thank you, Loved the graph, Simple and powerful
What we need to do is hire someone to squeeze John Kerrys head 24 hours a day for the next 10 years. The crap coming out of it is prime pig dung that could be converted into fuel to power the country for the next decade.
Gore is an idiot or a moron.
But when you look up dork in the dictionary, you get a picture of Kerry.
'It must be so nice to be a "Democrat". You just issue a "mandate" or decree and presto, changeo,...problems solved, reality overcome and the world is fixed.'
Funny, this guy had 20 years to do something about energy, terrorist threats, social security....and in all that time, no one would vote for a bill he proposed...there is not one "Kerry Bill"....
thanks - news to me...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0418_060418_coal_energy.html
The End of Oil? Breakthrough Turns Coal Into Clean Diesel
Sean Markey
for National Geographic News
April 18, 2006
With the price of oil topping a wallet-busting U.S. $70 a barrel yesterday, the search for alternative fuels keeps heating up.
Last week, scientists announced what may be a new end-run around the oil problem: producing diesel fuel from coal, natural gas, and organic material.
Reporting in the current issue of the Journal Science, researchers say they have developed a way to shuffle the carbon atoms derived from cheap fuel sources like coal to form more desirable combinations, such as ethane gas and diesel fuel.
In their study, scientists scrambled the makeup of hydrocarbons—organic compounds found in fossil fuels—using two chemical processes, one of which earned last year's Nobel Prize in chemistry.
The reaction produced ethane gas and diesel fuel.
The synthetic diesel "is much cleaner burning than conventional diesel, even cleaner burning than gasoline," said Rutgers University chemist Alan Goldman.
Goldman co-developed the process with Maurice Brookhart, a chemistry professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"It's a very clever idea," Robert Bergman, a chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, told Science in an accompanying news report.
"I don't think this will be an industrial process tomorrow. But conceptually, it is important."
Nazi Germany
The technology might one day wring more diesel fuel and ethane gas from hydrocarbon byproducts produced by oil refineries.
But the new chemistry's greatest potential may be as a follow-up to an 80-year-old technology known as Fischer Trospch (FT) synthesis. more......
Fine with me. Out here in the Pacific Northwest, most of our power is hydroelectric.
Let's just leave Massachusetts in the cold and in the dark.
"I always thought Sarah Jessica Parker looked like Dee Snyder from Twisted Sister."
Oh God, you're right. Sarah Jessica didn't age well in my opinion. Actually, none of the women on "Sex In The City" were all that interesting to me.
Good grief. Yep, just get rid of all the cars that can't run on ethanol. It's no problem, people will just buy new cars. </ sarcasm>
Rich airhead.
Kerry is an absolute waste of oxygen.
HAHAHAHAHA of course!
You gotta watch your quadrants, you know...
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