Posted on 01/27/2023 11:29:50 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The Department of Energy on Thursday announced a grant of $118 million in funding for domestic production of biofuels, part of the Biden administration’s emission-reduction goals.
Funding was divided between 17 projects, each of which received between $500,000 and $80 million, according to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm. The projects are sited in nine states and the District of Columbia, according to the department. They are divided into four categories: emission reduction using ethanol and integrated biorefinery technology in the pre-pilot, pilot and demonstration stages.
Biofuels are quickly produced fuels derived from organic material, distinct from fossil fuels both for their renewability and the much shorter time span they take to produce. The federal government has set a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the primary driver of climate change, by 70 percent by the end of the decad
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What about the greenies burning poop? Wouldn’t that be a biofuel?
They do that in parts of India...saw a girl making something that looked like pancakes to be used as fuel.
And how well does it scale?
Did Congress vote on this ?
Biden administration awards $118 BILLION for biofuel projects
How is it being financed? From what pot? Or does it go though Congress??
who gave joey bags the blank checks?
Takes more energy to produce than what you get from it.
Making food more expensive and ruining engines. Yeah, it’s always been a great approach for grifters.
Since DEF is used for diesels these days I think I will put in for a grant so I can piss in a bottle and sell it.
IIRC-—There was a story within the past 6 months about a well-funded Bio Fuel plant going bankrupt.
“Takes more energy to produce than what you get from it.”
A feature; not a bug.
Here is my power company read out jan21 to dec 21
BIOFUEL...............LESS THAN 1 PERCENT!
118 MILLION who’s getting rich? who’s skimming?
1. Pyrolysis of wood
2. Algae
3. Pyrolysis of corn stover
Warning - Opinions follow…
Easy thing for me to comment on is the corn stover usage. What's going to protect the soil and retain moisture over the winter? There's a reason that this stover is left on the ground and disked into the soil prior to spring planting. Did anyone actually talk to farmers?
Pyrolysis is pyrolysis no matter the feedstock. It's high temperature oxidation of an organic in an oxygen limited reactor. In an oil refinery, this is called the Coker Unit. The feed is every crappy hydrocarbon strewn that nothing else can be profitably wrung out of. In other words, it's a giant trash can.
Products from a Coker are petroleum coke, which is a substitute for coal in energy production or cement kilns and a liquids stream that is recycled back to the refinery front end and blender with the crude oil.
So, back to stover and wood residue…. The coke product from this is going to have a similar BTU value as lignite coal but will have a lower commercial value. This because forest slash left from logging and agricultural stover have been laying on the ground thus has a much greater grit content.
I've worked with pyrolysis several times that used nontraditional feedstocks. The only time that economics make sense sorta is if it is something like domestic landfill garbage where someone paid you to take it off their hands.
The project descriptions listed lab and pilot plant funding for proprietary liquids processes to produce jet fuels, gasoline and such. If these novel processes were anything more than academic exercises, government funding would not be necessary. Venture capital would be flowing in or it would be brought into r&d activities of major refining and chemical companies. The advantages of relying on private funding vs government is that private $$$ is not inclined to throw good $$$ into something that fails the twin tests of being technically achievable at an economic cost.
Oh… Algae tech now. With algae tech, the first hurdle is where can you establish huge algae pond acreage. The only suitable land is the desert southwest. Lots of flat land, lots of sun days, short winter period when algae production shuts down. Technical problem is no water. Literally no water in the quantity needed. Failed step 1 - No need to proceed further.
I ramble too much…
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