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Unlocking new energy possibilities with dead wood
Reuters (US) ^
| 2011
| Reuters
Posted on 10/27/2011 11:20:34 AM PDT by bridgemanusa
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This is really amazing and could help revitalize some of the closed paper processing facilities across the nation.
Energy independence!!
Video: Unlocking New Energy Possibilities
To: bridgemanusa
It's been done.
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posted on
10/27/2011 11:26:16 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: cuban leaf
There are pellet-powered cars?
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posted on
10/27/2011 11:27:33 AM PDT
by
bridgemanusa
(loan MA Conservative)
To: bridgemanusa
Scientists at the University of Maine have invented a simple two-step way to turn wood and even garbage into fuel, that could power your car and heat your home. I've already got a two step process to heat my home with wood.
1) Load wood into furnace.
2) Ignite wood.
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posted on
10/27/2011 11:27:33 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(Obama & Holder LLP, Procurers of fine arms to the most discerning drug lords (202) 456-1414)
To: bridgemanusa
Unlocking new energy possibilities with dead wood Really? How can Joe Biden unlock new energy possibilities?
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posted on
10/27/2011 11:27:52 AM PDT
by
JaguarXKE
To: bridgemanusa
Unlocking new energy possibilities with dead wood Really? How can Joe Biden unlock new energy possibilities?
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posted on
10/27/2011 11:28:08 AM PDT
by
JaguarXKE
To: Roccus
OK.. it seems like some are only reading the headline and not watching the video.
They have developed a two step process to turn cellulose fiber (biomass) into OIL.
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posted on
10/27/2011 11:30:34 AM PDT
by
bridgemanusa
(loan MA Conservative)
To: bridgemanusa
Naw.....I went out and tried to put some sticks into my car’s gas tank. They won’t go in.
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posted on
10/27/2011 11:31:39 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: bridgemanusa
Pyrolysis...
but there’s probably a very good reason that it isn’t used beyond an experimental scale.
And just WHAT is wrong with drilling for oil, fracking for NG, and mining for coal?
I guess if you don’t believe in a Creator,
you don’t believe this stuff was put here for us to USE.
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posted on
10/27/2011 11:32:59 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: blueunicorn6
You gotta use the smaller ones. (But make sure the wood is DEAD.)
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posted on
10/27/2011 11:34:43 AM PDT
by
Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: bridgemanusa
To: bridgemanusa
OK, I’ll admit it. This looks pretty cool. I wonder if it is more cost effective than burning ethonol from corn.
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posted on
10/27/2011 11:35:07 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: bridgemanusa
Very impressive. I hope the new process can be made cost-efficient when they scale it up.
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posted on
10/27/2011 11:35:57 AM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
To: bridgemanusa
Americans knew how to build wood burning gasification units to power gasoline farm equipment and cars back in WW2. Its not that hard if you can weld. The tech works and its proven.
http://www.gengas.nu/byggbes/contents.shtml
To: Roccus
Check this out:
masonry heater association Cool, but very old, technology that gets super-high efficiency out of burning wood to heat your home.
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posted on
10/27/2011 11:36:22 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: bridgemanusa
They’re going to use the govt for energy?
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posted on
10/27/2011 11:36:45 AM PDT
by
saganite
(What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
To: blueunicorn6
—Naw.....I went out and tried to put some sticks into my cars gas tank. They wont go in.—
You use a wood chipper and then they go in just fine. And they melt into the gas like ice cubes in water.
Trust me!
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posted on
10/27/2011 11:36:54 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: bridgemanusa
Yeah. I’m guilty. I did watch the video but I just can’t resist the opportunity to make a smart alec comment.
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posted on
10/27/2011 11:37:50 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: bridgemanusa
Germany, in WWI when it was blockaded by the British fleet and couldn’t get oil, ran cars and trucks on stoves that gasified wood so it would run the engines. The Nazis did the same towards the end of WWII when their source of Romanian oil was blocked. Has America come that point of energy disaster? I think not if we drill baby drill.
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posted on
10/27/2011 11:37:50 AM PDT
by
RicocheT
(Eat the rich only if you're certain it's your last meal)
To: cuban leaf
Check out the link in 14.
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