Posted on 04/21/2008 1:14:28 PM PDT by VLDdeSan
I and many others, have been growing more and angry at the main stream media’s total lack of interest in what could be the important development in energy production the last 100 years.
I am referring to Researcher J.C. Bell and his company, Bell Bio-Energy. To quote the source article below: “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."
Yes, you read it right, anything.....anything that grows in the earth: All matter of plant refuge from plants and cities: leaves, branches,lawn clipping, ANYTHING!
This process has been already vetted in Washington. It works and at a price that is less than a third of the current price of a barrel of oil. This development could end in one stroke our energy crisis. Soon and I don’t mean eventually, it will liberate us from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, and Canada.
Any municipality or company could make their own fuel to power their businesses and homes. NO, he’s not a crackpot turning water into gasoline. This is for real. Yet all the newspapers and networks are silent. Why?
Its been suggested that they are skeptical at such a fantastic claim or is it something else?
Still don’t believe? Then check it out and decide for yourself. Then ask WHY are They burying of this fantastic and historical development?
Go to: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59402
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Oil Slick Willie. Nice.
You might have a problem with him, his oil would be full of $hit
In a newspaper, The Tifton Gazette, (no, I have idea where this Tifton is), had an article with a bit of elaboration from Mr. Bell. On March 15, 2008 an article said that a genetically modified bacteria (probably e. coli) would produce a fuel that would require no further refining for auto use and that the initial plant would produce 500-1000 barrels/day.
Bell further stated that a full scale plant would be operational by Oct. 1, 2009.
ROTFLMAO!! Yeah, Billy Mays will get it rollin’ !!!
ROTFLMAO!! Yeah, Billy Mays will get it rollin’ !!!
Kudzu.
That would be Tifton, GA. which is about 200 miles south of Atlanta on I-75.
Tifton is home to The Tifton Agricultral Station which, among its other achievements, developed the different varieties of Tif-grass which a lot of golf courses use because of resiliency and less need for water.
Just up the road from the station is Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, aka ABAC.
Their school cheer when I lived in the area was "Gee, Haw, Whoa, Back, Give 'em Hell ABAC."
More likely that a series of bacteria could produce the longer chains needed for oil.
“Now if we could just find a way to economically turn democrats into oil we would really be onto something.”
Been there, done that.
Chicken gizzards *have* been turned into oil.
In the case of the plant at the Butterball facility CWT claimed 85% return of energy. Not factored in was the reduced cost of getting rid of waste. Turning a problem into a resource Butterball started to charge for turkey waste that they used to pay to have hauled away.
Thermal depolymerization using water works very well.
“The only problem with thermal depolymeriztion is that it takes lots of energy to get it done. That means more electrical plants (hopefully nuclear). Think about it this way though, what if for the cost of building some nuclear plants in every state, we could mine all of the old landfills, convert all municipal sewage, and convert any new garbage and unwanted organic waste into petroleum? I’d say it’s a win-win scenario.”
The way I read the original article (has it really been nearly 5 years?), some of the heat and steam used in the process is redirected into producing power generation. Pity I didn’t make more hard copies of the original article.
Agree on the nuclear plants! More power!
My primary interest is energy research and I always suspected something like this was around the corner. Animals or plants genetically modified to produce fuel would be a logical step.
Bacteria in cows already make methane from grass. Methane is a good fuel as it is.
I suspect it is possible to have similar bacteria run wild in a tank full of grass and have methane come out. The cost and capacity would still have to be determined vs. oil.
The capacity limit is the biosphere.
We found out long ago growing plants are not dense enough sources for fuel in modern use.
At one time over 25% of land was growing transportation fuel - for horses. Imagine how much would be required to put a dent in world energy demands today.
There’s a reason we innovate toward more dense energy fuel. Nuclear being the best.
A second vote for kudzu from the North Carolina Piedmont.
Talk about a renewable resource!
Remember - when photoelectric cells were discovered, they claimed that the world’s energy needs would be met by that, too. “The only limit is the amount of sunshine we get! And we can use batteries for the cloudy days!”
I’m a natural skeptic. I realize that there’s more to this than meets the eye. Implementation may be difficult on a wide scale. Until I see actual details on fuel production per acre dedicated to a) processing facilities and b) biomass generating land (i.e. farmland) I won’t buy the hype.
...but yeah. Nuclear would be a good choice in today’s age.
And Yucca mountain? Are we tired of the resistance to THAT project yet?
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