Posted on 01/11/2008 8:07:03 AM PST by tobyhill
“Carried too far, this would conewrn me:”
At least it wouldn’t stune your beeber.
Whether you use grass or corn, it causes more CO2 to be released into the atmosphere to manufacture ethanol than to just use gasoline. Not that CO2 released into the atmosphere makes any difference to anything.
Spent Liquor gasification. Uses a byproduct of paper making to make bio fuels.
Do a search on it.
DUH, I guess this is result of millions of dollars of government funded research.
www.gasification.org/Docs/2006_Papers/27LAND.pdf
There is a plant that is about to be (started on) constructed at NewPage paper corp in Escanaba Mi.
They are in the initial stages of planning at this time.
Google moonshiners still, Same thing! http://homedistiller.org/photos-moonshine.htm
Just more expensive because of the meddeling of the government in price supports and land & water use restrictions. Sugar Cane produces more potential Kcals per acre than grass or corn, but artificial economic factors make it more expensive.
...but growing the corn or switchgrass removes the CO2 from the atmosphere.
Has anyone ever brought a commercially viable product to market?
A common large power supply used in plasma cutting and plasma spray systems can require up to 140Kw of input power to sustain a 6" stream of plasma.
I found my own answer, it appears there are lots of waste reprocessing systems around, but I can't see how you could get one to produce more energy then it consumes creating and sustaining the plasma.
http://www.solenagroup.com/html/images/plasma.pdf
I believe there are probably better ways to create biofuels, but after 10 minutes of reading I'm wondering why most large cities aren't building one of these plants to dispose of their municipal waste and generate some electricity.
I feel like Jed Clampett....sitting on a gold mine of grass that I'll sell to the highest bidder. U.S. Army Retired |
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