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."
(Excerpt) Read more at physorg.com ...
It will get shot down because it’s not a food crop. No logic involved, the goobermint is fixated on diverting food crops for biofuel. Thus biofuels will remain boondoggles.
To err is human, but it takes a goobermint bureaucrat to really mess things up.
"Here is our solution to the energy crisis," said Abdur, with a fatuousness I thought you had to go through Yale Law School to acquire. A tricycle rickshaw is energy efficient like a Kuwaiti oil-well fire. The average food intake in Bangladesh is said by the Bangladeshi government to be 2,215 calories a day. One gallon of gasoline provides 125,000 BTUs, which is equivalent to 31,250 calories. In other words, a gallon of gasoline is a box of sugar donuts, a half-dozen twelve-ounce steaks, three six-packs of beer, a pizza, an apple pie, a twenty-piece bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, one hundred chocolate chip cookies, a birthday cake, a quart of bourbon, and a Big Mac and fries -- which is more than a rickshaw puller gets in two weeks, if ever. And a gallon of unleaded regular costs about seventy-five cents, before taxes. Try feeding anybody for two weeks on seventy-five cents, even in Dhaka.
--P.J. O'Rourke, All The Trouble in The World
Cheers!
Not sure if this is a new one.
Oh...swamp gas.
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