Posted on 05/07/2009 5:06:07 PM PDT by decimon
The method, called catalytic hydrothermal gasification, creates natural gas out of algae - more quickly, more efficiently and at higher yields than other biofuel processes. Genifuel expects the process also requires less capital investment. The license agreement moves this technology for renewable energy production a step closer to commercial reality. Battelle operates PNNL for DOE.
"Algae and other aquatic biomass hold significant promise for our country's ability to produce renewable energy domestically," said Genifuel President Jim Oyler. "At Genifuel we have developed efficient growth and harvesting techniques for the aquatic biomass. With this gasification process, we can convert the biomass to a clean fuel that is almost completely carbon-neutral."
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Slime gas ping.
“That doesn’t cost enough money. Cover it up.”
-Probably what 0bama is saying about his green policies.
If it’s privately funded and means we buy less from the people who hate us, I’m for it.
You know, they also say if you drill a hole in the ground you can find VAST pressurized pockets of it trapped it the strata. Oh well, it’s prob just another urban legend,,,
I'll drink to that.
It’s GREAT!! Think of a Crown Victoria, with the fuel tank taking up most of the trunk. Having a little less than spectacular acceleration, and with 90 or 100 miles range in the city!!
A long time ago, in Canada. Ran fine.
Add GTL process to this and you’d have a very clean diesel type fuel.
I believe that I had a boss once who had a propane powered drag car. Propane has a high octane rating and the engine can be built with a high compression ratio. Turbo or supercharging shouldx get you reasonable performance.
Propane gives a bigger "blowed up real good" than natural gas so I'd guess it's less safe than gasoline in a motor vehicle.
Propane?
What it’s actually super good, at is firing power plants to generate electricity, and for light industrial and home use. It’s clean, and we have more than we can use domestically.
Unfortunately the AlGore crowd hates it too.
Ford used to sell propane cars in Canada. They had pumps at the gas stations.
Sure, my dad had his 1982 Dodge truck converted to run on propane. He had duel 18 gal. gas tanks that came with the truck and a sixty gal. propane tank in the bed. He pulled a house trailer with it. Flip a couple of switches on the dash and you could run on either propane or gas. I sold the truck last year and it was still running good - gas or propane!
There are a lot of propane vehicles on the road right now.
It doesn't get as much power or mileage, the price is a little lower, so it costs about the same per mile as gasoline.
Oh sure, i don’t doubt that. You can build super engines on everything. But we are talking about converting existing passenger engines into running on it. Thats not so good. And dragsters only go 1/4 mile. CNG cars have extremely short range.
Our city bought them for the police in some PC grant program. Within a year they were being used by cops that worked inside schools all day and didnt need any range, and other assorted city workers that didnt drive much except maybe one short trip a day.
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