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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: Dwg115 on July 12, 2008, 10:26:45 AM
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not tech related but interesting and affects us all.
Green fuel, made at home
In an economy held hostage by oil prices rapidly approaching the stratosphere, this Baytown-based alternate energy company has found a way to make substantial amounts of crude oil from farm waste.
Now Rivera must convince potential investors that his trade secret – 21 years and $31 million dollars in the making – isn’t just a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
The “Rivera Method” takes such agricultural refuse as cracked soy beans, rice and cotton seed hulls, grain sorghum, milo and jatropha and turns them into bio-crude oil. This crude – or Vetroleum, as Rivera calls it - can then be further refined into everything from gasoline to jet fuel and just about every petrochemical in between.
Source: http://www.hcnonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19786825&BRD=1574&PAG=461&dept_id=639295&rfi=6
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Sounds like the way our current crude oil was made by environmental waste over time after gajillions of years. Just faster. ENERGY OIL!
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I still like the Electrolysis of water idea or hydrogen fuel cells more.
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I still like the Electrolysis of water idea or hydrogen fuel cells more.
I agree. there are environmentally safer methods being tested that could be just as good. But right now i want cheaper fuel!!!
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True =X
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The issue is that it takes a gallon and a half of gasoline to make it.
This has been discussed any times over the past few years and it is just not fisable yet.
Maybe in 5-10 years but in the meantime we need Nuclear planets and drilling.