The Company is making moves for acreage in New Mexico and it looks like things are happening. Will wait to see the results but the claim is 25,000 gallons of fuel per acre. They can do this at $60 per barrel, with no taxes and clean and renewable!
Some say they cannot harvest yet efficiently. Need much more info.
Promises, promises.
What happens if this gets loose, in nature?
The producing is the hard part, if they have a bit of heat harvesting will be a minor problem. Warm the liquid and evaporate the alcohol. Find a moonshiner, they’ll work it out.
Will it do windows and cook breakfast in the morning?
Taxes or subsidies?
Taxes are what Joule or its customers pay to the government. Subsidies are what the government pays to Joule.
Which is it? I'm too lazy to visit their website again, but the last time I did, the phrase "including subsidies" occurred with disturbing regularity, rendering their claims meaningless.
Too bad ethanol ruins engines. I won’t ever use it unless there is no other alternative.
What ozero care committee gets to determine THAT ?
Pons and Fleiceman,
at it again
The bad news: Martians have landed in Washington and taken control of the government.We'll see if the invention pans out ... but right now I don't think it's wise to hold one's breath until it does.The good news: Martians eat liberals, pee gasoline, and are heading west.
PR sounds good, encouraging there is still incentive for innovation out there. But patenting is not production as has been the experience in converting methane into gasoline. Hope this leads to an economic product, though ethanol fuel use has been propped up by government fantasy and fiat prob’ly more than market driven.
“100X greater than corn ethanol – while requiring no depletion of food crops, agricultural land or fresh water”.
Too good to be believed?
Where is the umbrage such as the E-Cat has generated?
No doubt if they actually begin production our “President”, the eco-nuts, and PETA types will try to sabotage them by legislation or violence.
Make it cheap and plentiful enough and even I might build an Alky engine to use in one of my cars!
This could be great news for people who drink alcohol. But I’m still not going to put that garbage in my car voluntarily.
Unstated is how frugal the fermentation process will be with water. The hydrogen has to come from somewhere. And some excess water will be needed so the organism isn’t killed by all the alcohol it has made. If its thirst for water isn’t economically prohibitive, we’ve got a beast that can feasibly turn globull warming into joy juice.
Yeah, right. NOTHING productive can be done with no taxes.
It would not be a surprise to anyone in the field if some other feedstock displaces corn for ethanol production. But I’m a little skeptical of a story that touts production from a “photosynthetic microorganism” as producing energy from sunlight and CO2 without the use of biomass feedstocks. Whoever wrote the article seems not to understand what a photosynthetic microorganism is, which is pretty basic to the process.
“with no taxes “
NOT FOR LONG!
If a 100% is .60 cents per gallon 50% is 1.20 per....roll out the barrels...
Very positive article..ping for saving for reference.
We’ve GOT to get beyond the blame/negative/woe-is-me mode that is all over the place these days and get back to developing real solutions and ideas for moving forward.
American ingenuity is still our number one resource and will be the only thing that gets us out of our current troubles and back on track.
I hope this is successful and can eventually employ thousands. My fondest wish is to do nothing more than run a small manufacturing company (50-100) people making something(s) that people want/need.
Thanks for making my day.
The q1uestionis what is the source of the CO2. The answer you gave is cola combustion in existing power plants.
That being said, what is the need for acreage in New Mexico? What is produced on that acreage?
I recently visited the Jack Daniels distillery in Lynchburg Tennessee and saw the vast fermentation vats bubbling co2. It would seem the co2 waste product of the fermentation process will also be a source on a pretty large scale.