Of COURSE burning Ethanol is good for the Planet!
Posted on 05/15/2009 5:40:32 PM PDT by neverdem
Of COURSE burning Ethanol is good for the Planet!
Soon to be followed by an over-the-top fear of water disappearing.
will get you hits with GLOWING praise for gasification!
(No mention of COST; though.)
The photo is of the successfully operating coal gassification plant at Eastman Chemical Co in Kingsport TN and has been operational since about 1980.
This plant production is converted into feed stock that allows Eastman to be the world low cost producer of many products. Although they are currently a little slow as are most chemical companies, the production of filter tow is booming and they have trouble keeping up. The Chinese are addicted to smoking and come to Kingsport to buy an unimaginable quantity of the filter material.The gas plant allows that to happen.
I noted in a post above my efforts. As a young Jaycee, my close friends and buddies were the engineers who designed, built and operated this facility. Those were truly hedy days. The young engineers of today are being asked to work on throughly plowed ground. Eastman buys the coal just north of here in south west Virginia where there is a never ending supply.
"That's Hedley!" -- Hedley LaMarr ("Blazing Saddles")
thanks neverdem and BIGLOOK. The lib outlook is best summed up by a scene in the light comedy “Baby Boom”, actually by a couple of scenes. The first one is, her house out in the country had its own well for water. The well dried up (basically) and she told the guy “there’s a hose in the back of the garage, just go fill it up again”. :’) The other scene was when she started her own baby food company, the weekend rich libs from the city bought it at whatever huge price per jar, and so she got offered a kajillion dollars to sell out. Which she did.
The Bum Rap on Biofuels
American Thinker | 5-13-08 | Herbert Meyer
Posted on 05/14/2008 3:59:06 AM PDT by Renfield
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015711/posts
Campaign to vilify ethanol revealed
ethanol producer Magazine | May 16, 2008 | By Kris Bevill
Posted on 05/17/2008 9:22:13 AM PDT by Kevin J waldroup
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017389/posts
Thanks for the ping!
“Grampa had transportation that burned food: Dobbin!”
Ha!
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Yea but he got rid of it as soon as he could. When I was a child in Weston Ore there wasn't one house that heated or cooked with elec and NG just wasn't available. All heating and cooking was done with wood, on those cold winter day's you couldn't even see the town for all the smoke generated from stoves and fireplaces. I've got pictures of Los Angeles taken a few years before that and the conditions were the same.
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