Posted on 03/13/2008 12:19:36 PM PDT by Red Badger
i.e., See post 35
You can make a deisel from waste lube oils. I’ve been trying to get funding for a plant for 2 years! but can’t ge a break. Millions given for $200MM ethynol plants, but for our $40MM used oil re-refinery, we can’t get a dime from the gov’t. Sucks.
Algae and some other new processes, trans-esterification just being one, are very, very promising for diesel production from bio-mass.................
DON'T GIVE UP!.....Just re-submit your application and say you are building a bio-diesel blending facility and you're all set!.....Then you can have biodiesel as well as waste oil recovery at the same time.......
Ever herd of some biotech conference called the TED or T.E.D.? It’s supposed to be some very exclusive, cutting edge conference attended by venture capital Big Cheeses and the Hollywood crowd who are between movies.
Can somebody who’s better educated help me out with this? I’ve been thinking that the emphasis (subsidies if you’re going to end up stuck with them) on biofuels should instead go into something like neutralizing radioactive nuclear waste. It would seem to me, if you could do something about stabilizing nuclear waste, nuclear power could support the electrical infrastructure. This would free up a lot oil for general transportation.
Putting aside the concerns with political correctness and enviro-protesters, is this sort of neutralization unthinkable or a bad idea?
Nuclear waste should just be launched into the sun and forgotten about. There’s more radiation 20 miles above your head than will ever be a problem with nuclear waste................
For those who don’t know. This is the plant that the most productive yields for green bio-diesel comes from.
Because it is cheaper than biodiesel made from any other crop. http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2214#more
No, I gooogled “TED” and “BIOFUELS” and Got Ted Turner........
What is that a picture of?....
Not in any quantity that matters.
Japan is going to be petrol free first. WSJ article yesterday that shocked me - Japan is subsidizing the installation of fuel cells in homes. The fuel cells provide the electricity AND the hot water. Japan is also looking to move cars off of petrol and on to electricity within the next four years.
You will be able to replace your batter bank at any fill-up station, same as if you would get gas. You don’t recharge the batteries, you exchange your bank for another.
Trash-based ethanol
Agree. Biodiesel is better than ethanol; can be made from more things.
vaudine
What's their net profit?
PS - Subsidies are not profit.
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