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Anything that grows 'can convert into oil'
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 19 Mar 2008 | Joe Kovacs

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biofuel; energy; noaraboil; petroleum
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Couldn't find this anywhere else. It's on WorldNUTDaily, so take it for what it's worth. If it could be done, that'd be great, but remember we got burned a few years back on the whole "anything into oil" with Changing Worlds Technology and their depolymerisation technology, which never panned out.
1 posted on 03/20/2008 6:00:38 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
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Company finds natural solution that turns plants into gasoline
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988585/posts
posted on 03/19/2008 10:44:53 PM CDT


2 posted on 03/20/2008 6:05:53 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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Anything that grows 'can convert into oil'

Or Soyalent Green.

3 posted on 03/20/2008 6:06:50 AM PDT by jammer
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

I think that stuff under my kid’s bed could even go nuclear.


4 posted on 03/20/2008 6:07:14 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Somebody better do something
This Food for Fuel will destroy us.


5 posted on 03/20/2008 6:14:52 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Land of the Fee, Home of the Shamed)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

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.


6 posted on 03/20/2008 6:16:06 AM PDT by Rumplemeyer
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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..

I thought "cracking" broke C-C bonds in the aliphatic/olefinic chains themselves?

7 posted on 03/20/2008 6:17:28 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Men fight well when they know that no prisoners will be taken.)
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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.......


8 posted on 03/20/2008 6:21:36 AM PDT by joe fonebone (Screw McPain....J. Fred Muggs for POTUS)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Christopher Loyd succeeded at this back in the 80's.


9 posted on 03/20/2008 6:22:34 AM PDT by diverteach (http://foolishpleasurestudio.com/eyewool/slap_hillary.html)
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>>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.


10 posted on 03/20/2008 6:23:33 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

The original article which got my attention is listed below.

http://www.tiftongazette.com/local/local_story_075215425.html


11 posted on 03/20/2008 6:24:17 AM PDT by Borneo1
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Crackers only "Crack". They do not rejoin molecules in different formats. They break large hydrocarbon molecules into smaller ones.

Such as:

C22H46 ---> C11H24 (an alkane) + C11H22 (an alkene)

Getting Started with Chemistry, Hydrocarbon Cracking
http://canadaconnects.ca/chemistry/10105/

12 posted on 03/20/2008 6:25:05 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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Coskata has the know how to do this inexpensively & is on their way to building the first large scale test plant.

http://www.coskata.com/


13 posted on 03/20/2008 6:25:55 AM PDT by Toaster tank
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988585/posts


14 posted on 03/20/2008 6:27:00 AM PDT by upchuck (Who wins doesn't matter. They're all liberals. Spend your time and money to take back Congress.)
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wo0t! finally found a use for all that kudzu down south.

15 posted on 03/20/2008 6:27:26 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (white male christian hetero married gun toting SUV driving motorcycle riding conservative smoker)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

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.


16 posted on 03/20/2008 6:29:34 AM PDT by RayChuang88
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And that article was posted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988585/posts


17 posted on 03/20/2008 6:31:11 AM PDT by upchuck (Who wins doesn't matter. They're all liberals. Spend your time and money to take back Congress.)
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To: Rumplemeyer
How did the Brits make buses run on coal?
19 posted on 03/20/2008 6:58:19 AM PDT by NYFriend
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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.


20 posted on 03/20/2008 7:02:06 AM PDT by CivilWarguy (CivilWarGuy)
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