Posted on 10/27/2011 11:20:34 AM PDT by bridgemanusa
Could dead wood be the answer to the world's energy problems? 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Is Ron Jeremy dead?
See! What a great idea! Multiple uses! Pour some around your yard and it’ll keep the cats away!
Be careful!, they were probably diesel only sticks, the ones for the gasoline engines are smaller
If I had to spend that much I would consider a solar hot water heater adapted for space heating also.
Treat dead wood with that little blue pill and watch the energy that’s generated!
(But make sure the wood is DEAD.) Just to be safe, shoot it again.
The EPA will never allow it...
Do they use dead people for fuel?
I am not against it I just don't want to be forced into paying for it especially when we had something that works.
I am really for energy sources like a wood stove that I can completely operate myself without a centralized monopoly blackmailing me. Give me something I can make myself if I don't want to buy it like http://www.gengas.nu/byggbes/index.shtml. This device can use all that the fancy oil maker uses without so many steps.
Do they use dead people for fuel?
Egypt used Mummies for fuel for Steam Engines for a while.
Ut Oh. Another reason for getting splitters....if your a tree hugger...hehe
That looks like it would be perfect for kiln-dried wood. Kiln-dried burns fast and hot.
A guy in my town has a Stanley. Surprisingly quick!
You forgot to mention that after a few loads of wood chips it’ll practically take nothing to fill up your tank! ;-)
Not everybody lives near woods. Not everybody even lives in a single-family house. Not everybody’s house is laid out in such a way that a wood-burning stove is going to heat the whole thing. And so far nobody has devised a modern car that will go if you just load a few logs into it and toss a match on the kindling. This seems like a good idea for people who, unlike you and me, don’t have access to woodlands for home heating.
But I have to say one thing: I’d rather they gassify garbage, as is done in Norway, than use wood. If wood is heavily used it will just drive the price of firewood up beyond what we ordinary people can afford for our fireplaces and woodstoves. There’s always garbage to use, and it’s better to gassify it than bury it or build enormous, costly government incinerators to burn it.
Personally I’d rather go back to burning my own garbage in my own back yard, but the community association fascists will take me to court if I do.
* It must be renewable [check]
* It must be clean [fail]
* It must generate rainbows [fail]
* It must produce a biproduct of skittles [fail]
* It must be unicorn approved [fail]
Try again kiddies!
“(But make sure the wood is DEAD.) Just to be safe, shoot it again.”
Why waste a bullet, just beat it with an ax.
Too bad there are so many comments by people who did not watch the video.
Liquid fuel aka oil has a very high energy density which makes it good for something mobile aka a car.
If this process can take any cellulose rich source then you don’t have to use wood but Kudzu would be cheap if not free and very fast growing.
There was a company looking to make ethanol from Kudzu but the break even point was way too close to current energy costs and converting the cellulose to sugars for the distillation process was expensive. This simple 2 step process just might help in the creation of not just oil but ethanol while at the same time reducing a very fast growing intrusive plant like Kudzu.
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