Check out this development in fuel synthesis

[Gary - K7GLD]

All interesting - but specially note the closing comment!



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[courierdog]

It just lacks the corporate will to move forward on a commercial scale. IMO

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

It just lacks the corporate will to move forward on a commercial scale. IMO

$$$ helps too - just GUESS who would be MOST likely to buy control of this, if it gets to looking promising - and a potential threat to existing energy suppliers...

 

[Regcabguy]

Hopefully with the price of oil now and the potential disruption of supplies(can you say Georgia) around the world,exciting technology like this will become a reality.

 

[courierdog]

Think about it, home grown fuel, no foreign ownership, it could be custom grown to be low emission low contamination ETC ETC

 

[Little Bill]

This is not new technology. All the existing petro oil in the world came from this process, but it took time, naturally occurring CO2 and naturally occurring nutrients. It can surely be speeded up through modern technology but beware of claims like 'all the fuel requirements of the US can be met by allocating 1/4 the area of New Mexico to algae growth'. these plants have to located along side of major CO2 producers, like coal fired power plants. You also need nutrient producers nearby. I doubt the residents of NM would like to see the pipelines needed to feed this bio reactior plumbed through their yards.

The DOE did extensive testing in the 70's through the 80's. End result was cost was 2X or more the cost of refining dino oil. Was dropped in the late 80's, early 90's due to this and rumored pressure from big oil. Last couple of years it has resurfaced due to cost of foreign dino oil changing the economics and big oil is investing in it. No conspiracy today. Plenty of papers on the topic out there today. You would be surprised at the Co. names pushing this and variants. My employer (DuPont), included.

My suggestion ... when you stumble on something on the net that seems too good to be true, research it.

 

[KKaminski]

It's a great , proven idea / process. So what if the cost is a little above what we're paying right now? I'd rather see something pro-active now that we have to pay for than the world scrambling in the future to re-gain this information because of some greedy people.