Posted on 03/20/2008 6:00:38 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
After three years of clandestine development, a Georgia company is now going public with a simple, natural way to convert anything that grows out of the Earth into oil.
J.C. Bell, an agricultural researcher and CEO of Bell Bio-Energy, Inc., says he's isolated and modified specific bacteria that will, on a very large scale, naturally change plant material – including the leftovers from food – into hydrocarbons to fuel cars and trucks.
"What we're doing is taking the trash like corn stalks, corn husks, corn cobs – even grass from the yard that goes to the dump – that's what we can turn into oil," Bell told WND. "I'm not going to make asphalt, we're only going to make the things we need. We're going to make gasoline for driving, diesel for our big trucks."
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Company finds natural solution that turns plants into gasoline
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posted on 03/19/2008 10:44:53 PM CDT
Or Soyalent Green.
I think that stuff under my kid’s bed could even go nuclear.
Somebody better do something
This Food for Fuel will destroy us.
Yes, the “cracking” process in oil refineries “cracks” the bond between carbon and hydrogen and allows them to be rejoined in the order needed to make gasoline, diesel fuel, lube oils etc..
The COST to do so is the sticking point, this technology was used by the Axis during WW2, very expensive to convert non-peterolium.
I thought "cracking" broke C-C bonds in the aliphatic/olefinic chains themselves?
i think this whole fossil fuel farce can be traced back a long time ago, to two old, barely able to hear scientists have a discussion about the dinosaurs....one old scientist said to the other” yep, dead dinosaurs turn into soil” and the other one, barely able to hear said “ did you say dead dinosaurs turn into oil?” the first one, barely able to hear said “ that’s right, they turn into soil” and that is how the myth of fossil fuels was born.......
>>The COST to do so is the sticking point, this technology was used by the Axis during WW2, very expensive to convert non-peterolium.
This is why Hitler drove into Russia if I remember correctly. He didn’t have a choice but to try to seize the Russian oil fields, since the coal liquefication process was too energy and cost intensive.
The original article which got my attention is listed below.
http://www.tiftongazette.com/local/local_story_075215425.html
Such as:
C22H46 ---> C11H24 (an alkane) + C11H22 (an alkene)
Getting Started with Chemistry, Hydrocarbon Cracking
http://canadaconnects.ca/chemistry/10105/
Coskata has the know how to do this inexpensively & is on their way to building the first large scale test plant.
This is not news. We know that certain types of algae contain oils that can be processed into diesel fuel, heating oil and possibly kerosene, and with further refining into various other hydrocarbon products—even gasoline! In short, we are very close to the technology to make hydrocarbon fuels from renewable algae—algae that can grow even in seawater.
And that article was posted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988585/posts
If memory serves, a recent book estimated that the oil produced by the German coal-to-oil plants was 4 times as expensive as “natural” oil.
Of course this was 1942. Perhaps with the increasing price of oil the difference might be less today.
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