Posted on 04/02/2022 5:13:28 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
It has been nearly a month since President Biden addressed the nation to announce a ban on Russian oil imports amid Moscow’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. As Biden pointed out during his speech, this moment is “a stark reminder” that the U.S. needs to be energy independent. At the time, the president made clear to the American public that gas prices, already on the rise prior to the invasion, would reach new heights as a result of U.S. sanctions. Today, we are seeing his prediction play out as gas prices have soared 48 percent year-over-year.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I’m glad to know that biofuels have no carbon content.
We can do this!!
I’m glad to know that biofuels have no carbon content.
We can do this!!
Let’s go, Brandon! Let’s go!
I think that is the technical term for unicorn farts....
.. would reach new heights as a result of U.S. sanctions communists in the District of Corruption.
PDJT had the USA well on the way to energy independece and the Democrat Party ousted him with a rigged election.
fujb
Energy Independence ... like TRUMP?
This guy couldn’t even call Life Alert.
We had it under Trump; Bidet killed it.
read the stupid article and still don’t know.
The whole thing is codswallop.
Unicorn farts?
Those tens of millions of hungry illegal aliens beg to differ.
So this lying criminal bastard now that he has stopped US from being energy independent when he took control now spittles froth that he can give us energy independence with bio-fuels. And the American people will not make the connection that he ruined our nation in order to roll in the green new deal reset. Sad that
We can get energy independence if we pursue LENR.
https://freerepublic.com/tag/lenr/index?tab=articles
LOL. Biofuel is exactly the right thing in face of a looming food crisis. Or not.
We had it under Trump; Bidet killed it.
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His Russian paycheck was due; he had no choice. Putin had a war to finance.
The announcement of biofuels come just as Biden’s CCP paycheck is coming due. The Chinese stand to make big money growing biofuel crops on the hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland they own in the US.
This advanced biofuel plan will also take all of that land out of food crop production, making the US even more dependent on Chinese agricultural imports. There maybe a bonus check in this for the Bidens, depending on how Hunter had the contract worded.
Advanced biofuels are made using nonfood biomass typically wastes that would otherwise goto landfills or be left in the fields to rot. The processes use either gasification to syngas which is a mixture of hydrogen,carbon monoxide and small amounts of CO2 and methane. This gas is then put across catalysts nearly identical to what is already used in petrochemical refineries to make alkenes from vizcracker gasses. The outcome is a range of C5 to F2f hydrocarbons that are chemically identical to their oil based alkanes or alkenes. The other way is to use fermentation by bioengineered ecoli,yeasts or fungi to digest the cellulose,hemicellulose and or lignin to a alcohol or alkane. Butanol is the best choice as it has nearly the same MJ/kg as octane such that with no modifications to a modern ECU.controlled O2 sensor closed loop system it will run as a drop in fuel.
Currently America throws away a billion tonnes of cellulose/hemicellulose wastes per year more when you include construction wastes and demo/remodel.wastes along with waste food and waste from the slaughter facilities it is nearing two billion tonnes. That’s enough to fuel all the heavys which don’t even come close to the consumption of light duty vehicles which a small group of people use vastly more than their fellow Americans. The data for that is below.
Look at the left blue bar that’s LDV which is the bulk of fuel use nearly all of that can and should be electrified. Why because the avg American drives less than 40 miles per day with the vast majority of trips under 6 miles. Look link two for that actual data. Only 4% of ALL trips per day are greater than 30 miles. 59% are under 6 miles. How can this be? Because the vast VAST majority of people live in cities with high density.
https://afdc.energy.gov/data/mobile/10661
https://afdc.energy.gov/data/mobile/10318
The huge bulk of vehicles in use are LDV for personal use.
https://afdc.energy.gov/data/mobile/10569
The bulk of the people live in cites with short drive distances perfect for EVs 300+ mile range is not needed the data clearly shows the daily distances is much less than 30 miles per day. An EV that can plug in at night at home with a 100 mile range has triple the reserve needed for the bulk as in 96% of the daily drives of Americans again the data confirms this. There will be the echo chamber luddites here who represent less than 1% of the population who happen to choose to live in the rural area and choose 50+ miles per day commutes that’s on them but the vast majority of Americans don’t do that they stay less than 6 miles from home every day and drive under 13,000 total miles per year. Switching that 96% to EVs cuts 50 billion gallons per year in consumption. The grid won’t collapse the math is easy on that. For those 96% with less than 30 miles per day the consumption in kWh would be under 10. A full sized Model S Tesla takes 250 watt hours to go one mile or one kWh moves it 4 miles from the plug. 40 miles per day which is more than 96% would ever use in a day is 10 kWh of extra power. That’s equal to running your cloths dryer for an hour half, your AC unit for one hour or your oven for two. Put another way two industrial sized 450 watt commercial solar panels in Texas on an average 12 hour daylight day would make enough to charge that car. Those panels are the size of a 8x4 sheet of plywood meaning your garage roof has enough space to charge 96% of people daily drives it’s just math and not even hard math. Middle school math.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/985183/size-urban-rural-population-us/
“In 2020, there were approximately 57.23 million people living in rural areas in the United States, compared to about 272.91 million people living in urban areas.”
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