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This higher efficiency alternative biofuel is something I have been following for some time. The fact that DuPont and BP are now involved brings it to the forefront of interesting developments.
1 posted on 05/15/2008 12:05:08 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
In addition, butanol is less ...

In addition to this it literally stinks. It has a truly repulsive odor.

2 posted on 05/15/2008 12:07:14 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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“Starting in the 1960s, the growth of the petroleum industry...”

and about the time the last new refinery and just before the last new nuclear power plants were built....

Just plain stoopid!


8 posted on 05/15/2008 12:17:12 PM PDT by petro45acp (NO good endeavor survives an excess of "adult supervision" (read bureaucracy)!)
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To: gleeaikin

I would be interested in how butanol is made. Can it be derived from biological ,ie plant material? Could you direct me to some sources you might find especially noteworthy.

Iknow, I know.....google is my friend. You apparently might be able to provide some wheat rather than a lot of chaff.


9 posted on 05/15/2008 12:24:15 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The Bitcons will elect a Democrat by default)
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To: gleeaikin

But what about oil from algae? Anyone remember Petrosun? Algae ponds in the Arizona desert?
Now biobutanol?


18 posted on 05/15/2008 1:51:47 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014123/posts


21 posted on 05/15/2008 2:50:24 PM PDT by Kevin J waldroup ( Go Duncan Hunter 2012)
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To: CygnusXI; Beowulf

ping


22 posted on 05/15/2008 3:02:48 PM PDT by steelyourfaith
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To: gleeaikin

alas...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014123/posts


24 posted on 05/24/2008 12:57:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Profile updated Monday, April 28, 2008)
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