Fuel ethanol cannot alleviate US dependence on petroleum
Fuel ethanol cannot alleviate US dependence on petroleum
Any way you run the numbers, there just ain’t enough energy, the way we are trying to do it now, for the number of folks that are being born. Or land. Or food.
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What about thermal repolymerization? Are there any studies out there yet from the pilot plants that are running? Just wondering…..
Well you have that as well as the algae that produces oil naturely and only has to be pressed and filtered or some such. But both are new tech and on the thermal repolymerization you have such a energy cost in processing that its not as green a process as others. I think the algae has the best long term possibilities right now.
There are a bunch of other gm projects in the works but that is all pie in the sky right now.
The big thing we need is a NON polluting energy source.
Solar sure as hell isn’t it. Or the cells that we have now are not as they consume a LOT of energy and also produce a lot of pollution in production and only have a 20 to 40 year lifespan after which they contribute that much more to the landfills.
Not enough wind to power even a 10th of what the US needs even if the treehuggers would let them kill the birds by putting the big wind turbines in. Understand from a recent piece I read that the birds stay the hell away from the blades after just a short time. Not near as stupid as some of the environmental dogooders I have known…
Back to the server fight. More on that later too…