Posted on 08/04/2005 6:35:33 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
What do you heat it to 900 degrees with?
So all we'll be doing is replacing the Muslim Terrorists' with Eco Terrorists?
"What do you heat it to 900 degrees with?"
A a big magnifying glass.
Hey Juan, I have a novel idea, why don't we simply drill for oil?
Not a very good plan... It's more expensive than oil and would result in even more loss of forestry.
Hemp makes far superior paper products as well.
The only problem is that another name for hemp is marijuana.
I guess these youngsters didn't catch the switch from wood to coal in those old steam engines. Seems they were'nt getting enough energy from the wood.
Hydrogen.
So we take wood pulp,skip turning it into COAL,but turn it into oil...and at the same time we are taking coal and turning it into GAS...and at the same time we want to some how produce hydrogen fuel from....nevermind,i need another cup of joe
I grew up in the logging business,and always believed we needed to collect the MASSIVE amount of scrap left behind....there is a dump truck load of useable material around that Cat
2005 becomes 1905, and town gas becomes all the rage again.
Sounds like he "discovered" what Changing World Technologies has already figured out.
A company called Changing World Technology is already trying this idea. It's received alot of press about a demonstration plant in Missouri and it's backed by alot of big players.
Unfortunately the demo plant just can't the process working properly. It sounds like everything in these high pressure, high temperature reactors has to work together perfectly or its a no-go.
http://www.changingworldtech.com/
Typically, either part of the feedstock, product, or a waste product from the process. Best would be the waste product, obviously.
But why bother. Seems far easier to do destructive distillation of the wood to produce more methanol, and then just burn the methanol. Converting wood AND methanol to "bio-oil" seems a bit counter-productive.
Exactly, you can't cut a tree down to make a good baseball bat ... let alone a gallon of bio-oil.
Ethanol!
Like any of the depolymerization techniques, this can be done with a small fraction of the energy gained in the output, as is true with oil refineries. Trees, as all life on earth, are hydrocarbon based. Trees get their energy from the sun to grow, which is converted into hydrocarbons. Therefore, all hydrocarbon based energy sources are really "solar power."
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