Posted on 07/28/2007 7:45:52 PM PDT by P-40
Cellulosic ethanol is the next step in making a definitive replacement for foreign oil. The reality is becoming ever closer, now in large part due to Range Fuels. The State of Georgia has just awarded them a permit to build the first plant to employ their patented technology to produce 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year.
Part of the apparent brilliance to the K2 process, as it is called, is that it is a modular design, meaning the processing equipment can be scaled to the need and location, and doesn't necessarily require a monstrous factory. Theoretically, a biomass supplier could cut transportation expenses by sending their material directly into an on-site processor, making the whole thing much more efficient. The K2 process eliminates expensive enzymes by using a two-step thermo-chemical conversion, first converting the biomass into a synthesis gas, and then processing the gas into ethanol.
This new technology and first of many plants employing it is beneficial for two main reasons. We've already covered the lessened dependency on foreign oil. It also means that with the alleged simplicity and adaptability of this processing method, we could see a boom in the number of ethanol plants across the country, thereby producing much more supply of ethanol, lessening demand, and lowering the price to something far more competitive to gasoline. That would then make the decreased efficiency of ethanol-burning engines more tolerable. Of course, as that technology advances as well, fuel efficiency could soon be on par with its oil-based competition.
I suspect they would wonder why we insist upon sending money to buy oil from people who want to destroy us.
Of course he's got just as much right to that opinion as anybody else on here, but it just gets so tiresome when he refuses to include the second law of thermodynamics in his propoganda after good people like you keep drilling him with it!!!
So obviously he must have some strong personal, financial interest in pushing, promoting and propogandizing the ethanol government subsidized idea to the nth degree!!!
You won the lottery? ................... FRegards
It's almost always that - some congresscritter gets a still for his neighbourhood and buys votes with our tax money, and then some farmers get paid to grow the wrong crops with our tax money.
It's a fools' game and argument, and the total energy equations are never addressed. The only reason I stopped by was the 'Secret' process involved.
I like to keep up on the latest con-games being played so I can educate my Grandchildren .................. FRegards
Yes, it is all a BIG CONSPIRACY and only you know THE TRUTH!
Nah, I'm just an Engineer with a keen eye for bullsh*t that's likely to cost me money.
Most conspiracies are LITTLE, and the 'TRUTH!' is based on Science, not Faith.
Here's a short quiz for ya, sport:
1)- Do you believe in Global Warming?
2)- Do you believe in Global Cooling?
3)- Are 'hybrid' vehicles a good idea?
Told ya it was short .............. FRegards
Hint: the answer to #1 and #2 is 'yes', and mankind has nothin' to do with it.
Your answer to #3 will decide Science vs Faith for you, and whether you're looking at a flower or a polyp ...
I know you’re having a convo with p-40,...please don’t put my name in the responses. Thanks.
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