Cheap Garbage to Biofuel Process in Trial Stage

[Bitchkoma]

So I posted this on ATS, before... but as usual the people there prefer to bicker about political crap, alien shiznit and religious dogma. So it got no response.

Fuck that.

I'm reposting the whole thing here:


Good news, everyone. General Motors is planning to make ethanol fuel from garbage. That's like killing a flock of birds with one stone!

GM to make biofuel out of garbage (http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iH9YAIzz62utMFZLeHaG_Fn9PuEg)DETROIT, Michigan (AFP) — General Motors Corp. is planning on making biofuel with garbage at a cost of less than a dollar a gallon, the company's chief has said.

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The prestigious Argonne National Laboratory analyzed Coskata's process and found it generates up to 7.7 times the amount of energy used and reduces CO2 emissions by up to 84 percent compared with a well-to-wheel analysis of gasoline.

So not only does it reduce garbage by putting it to good use, it's cheap to produce and reduces carbon dioxide emissions as well.

What a brilliant measure until the sunlight to petrol (http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/S2P) process can be made viable in a larger scale.

[MBF]

Garbage dumps can be a huge suppliers of energy.

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/873aae7bf86c0110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/2.html


I will be glad to see all that trash being put to good use.

[JiveTurkey]

Well, I personally feel that converting garbage to a more efficient fuel is nothing but political propaganda.

Not only that, but it's a direct slap to the face of god to choose to recycle garbage for a source of fuel instead of choosing the oil that HE makes for us.

Only a fucking reptilian would EVER consider a fuel source derived from trash!!


Jasn

[Bitchkoma]

You're joking, right? :?:

[Iamsix]

I hope this works out. I dont think that the electric car is the answer. In fact I think that they are worse for the enviroment than regular combustable engines. All the the heavy metals that go into producing the batteries. Those batteries have to go somewhere when they die....

[Tetsujin]

Six, is it possible to recycle the batteries? Anyway, the US production of garbage is HUGE! Not only would it reduce emitions but it would be a solution for all the trash we have on this planet.

[Iamsix]

Sure it is possible to recycle most anything...but the trick is getting people to do it. Plus the fact you have to mine these material to make batteries. There is a nickle mine in Canada the the area around it is so polluted and desolate that NASA uses it to test their vehicles that they send to other planets. And this is a large area. Several hundred sq miles I believe.