Anything that grows 'can convert into oil'

WorldNetDaily ^ | March 19,2008 | Joe Kovacs

[Republic Can]

After three years of clandestine development, a Georgia company is now going public with a simple, natural way to convert anything that grows out of the Earth into oil.

[rod1]

Kudzu. Might be the only thing Carter and I would agree on.

Didn’t he have an emergency disater plan against Kudzu when he was Pres??? and to think it might havce saved his presidency if only he had enbraced his inner Kudzu and converted it into oil.

[Jeff Chandler]

the Arc of the Covenant

THE Arc of the Covenant, or one of those Chinese knock-offs?

[Drammach]

Methane made from biomass would be "carbon neutral".
Actually, the carbon output would probably be less than the input, with the processed waste retaining a good chunk of the carbon.
Seems to me, the waste product is probably useful as a fertilizer, or can be further processed to provide other products.

As an aside to this, North Dakota takes brown lignite coal, extracts the methane, (along with other gaseous and solid components) and creates LNG, or Liquid Natural Gas.
That gas powers power plants as far away as the east coast.

As noted above, other products include butane, propane, fertilizer compounds, and, CO2, which is shipped to Canada and sequestered in the tar oil fields deep underground.

[WOBBLY BOB]

I wish our GOP leaders would grow a set and drill here.

[Domandred]

“We have all this really cool stuff that we’ve invented and are going to show everyone, but we can’t quite manage to put up our web site.”

That’s how I read the article at least. I don’t know sounds a lot like a bunch of the zero point energy guys. “We have free energy, but we can’t power our computers to put up a web site”.

[IronKros]

Why not just use Thermal Depolymerization?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization

They have had one outside a chicken pluckin plant in missouri for a while now.

It is really interesting technology.

Basically anything carbon based can be broken down into oil, water and gas.

It was supposed to be around ~85% efficient.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

I also wonder if Kudzu would grow in Iraq.

Kudzu grows in Hell, it should find Iraq quite pleasant.

I'm pretty sure that's where it came from...

Regards,
GtG

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

After three years of clandestine development, (Bell Bio-Energy) is now going public with a simple, natural way to convert anything that grows .... into oil.

(Cue Charlton Heston) ITS PEOPLE!!! Bell Bio-Energy is using PEOPLE!!!!!

;)

[CharlesWayneCT]

“Soylent Oil is People!!!!”

[CharlesWayneCT]

That’ll teach me to read to the bottom before trying to make lame jokes....

[wordsofearnest]

Grows everwhere else

[MainFrame65]

I believe that this might turn into a viable technology, although I think that bioengineered algae might be a more direct route to usable vehicle fuels.

This depends on bacterial digestion of organic feedstocks, which might not be available in the quantity and quality required to be self-sustaining. By “quality” I mean that the feedstock would need to be free of toxins that might kill the bacteria - such as heavy metals or pesticides. That means that the process would require crops grown for the purpose.

I do think this is well worth pursuing, if only for the purpose of recovering useful energy from what would otherwise just become excess landfill. Algae would more directly harness sunlight and CO2 to create the feedstock, but if bacteria can be engineered to produce hydrocarbons, why not algae?

Yeah, I know. If I’m so smart, why ain’t I rich?

[PaidByWord]

It’s only in the lab so far, scaling it up is always the problem.

Plus this is a biologic approach, so any contamination introduced by the feedstock can FUBAR the whole system.

Wish them luck, they will need it.