[HangnJudge]

Getting Closer....
Any process to stop the flow of money into the Islamists is OK with me

[rlmorel]

Dang...there goes the price of sugar now...

[rlmorel]

I’m with you on that, btw. I was just being facetious...

[VeritatisSplendor]

So this means you drive around with some syrup in your tank, converting it to hydrogen as needed, rather than driving around with a big tank of hydrogen ready to explode? Sounds good.

Then you need another tank to convert cellulose into glucose and things will really be good - organic cars powered by termites and bacteria.

Mrs VS

[RSmithOpt]

Now’s the time to go long on Dairy Queen stock?

[Redcloak]

One kg of starch will produce the same energy output as 1.12 kg (0.38 gallons) of gasoline

This is the important line. You don't want to carry around 20 pounds of stuff to get the effect of 1 pound of gasoline. The next hurdle to clear will be how this compares to gas when measured in terms of energy output per dollar. My guess is that gas is still much cheaper; but, as the price of this system comes down, and the price of gas goes up, that threshold will be crossed quickly enough.

[Philistone]

Well that certainly takes all the fun out of pouring sugar in someone’s gas tank...

[wita]

We aren’t any closer to partial, much less complete hydrogen usage than we were ten years ago, however, I am in complete agreement, that massive drilling everywhere there is oil within our territory, building of refineries, and nuclear power production should be first and foremost on any list that has even a particle of chance to stop the terrorist money flood to our sworn enemies.

[Old Professer]

[Moonman62]

This would be cool if it ever makes it to market.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

The Democrats will destroy the food supply of this country in the name of saving the environment.

[Abathar]

I see a lot of carbon and oxygen as a byproduct here, what kind of soupy, gloopy mess is going to be left in the tank after everything is “digested” and needs to be removed?

[Joe Boucher]

South Florida is a mecca for sugar.
It is more subsidized then any crop.
To harvest it they light the entire field on fire choking the air for as far as you can’t see.
Then the burned ashes flow into your water both above and below ground.
Then take into account the phosphates they use to fertalize it and I just can’t see it as the panacea.
What I can’t figure out is how they get away with it other then the f-ing e.p.a. isn’t doing their job.

[Abathar]

ping

[M203M4]

We are arming our enemies via a disgraceful energy policy. Putting those SOBS back in tents and back on camels and making them inconsequential (save for when they do something Really Dumb (TM)) should be the new Manhattan project. No further good will ever come from that part of the world.

The environment bs garbage may be helpful for getting the useful idiots to be useful for the right side for once.

[SampleMan]

If you put starch in the car and it converts it extracts energy from it, it seems that at some point the car will need to take a dump. I wonder how that is handled.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Getting Closer.... Any process to stop the flow of money into the Islamists is OK with me

I have a great idea!

Let's create massive food insecurity in the sacred name of imaginary "energy independence."

All in favor, follow me over this cliff!!!!!!

[taxcontrol]

I could see this first coming to market as a camping technology. Portable heater / power generator fueled by a bottle of syrup. The next step would be as an alternative for propane replacement ... though in colder climates, keeping the syrup thin enough to actually use may be a bit of a problem. Perhaps there might be a way to convert the syrup to pellets thus altering the problem.

Co-generation and off grid application could be next. Farmers could convert sugar beets or corn syrup on site to power their farms. All these technologies could be serviced with “syrup trucks”.

The next major step would be the adoption by fleet vehicles and a distribution system to support them. If the post office fleet were to have a large sugar or syrup tank back at their headquarters....???

[Liberty Valance]

Sweet!

[mollynme]

Hey. This could mean a comeback of the sugar beet industry around here. Hmmm.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

“Just add enzymes to a mixture of starch and water and “the enzymes use the energy in the starch to break up water into only carbon dioxide and hydrogen,” Zhang said.....A membrane bleeds off the carbon dioxide and the hydrogen is used by the fuel cell to create electricity.”

algore is deeply saddened.....