Discovery Could End Energy Crisis

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Discovery Could End Energy Crisis

Researcher: Discovery could end energy crisis



TIFTON —

A Tifton agricultural researcher says he has found the solution to the world’s energy crisis through genetic modification and cloning of bacterial organisms that can convert bio-mass into hydrocarbons on a grand scale. The local researcher believes his groundbreaking discovery could result in the production of 500 to 1,000 barrels of hydrocarbon fuel per day from the initial production facility. The hydrocarbon fuel — commonly known as oil or fossil fuel when drilled — will require no modification to automobiles, oil pipelines or refineries as they exist today and could forever end the United States’ dependence on foreign oil, he said.

http://www.tiftongazette.com/archivesearch/local_story_075215425.html


These people are just a few miles up the road from where I live. This can be a fantastic development because we can turn unused crop residue even yard trash into fuel. This can help us become less dependent on foreign oil.

[Iori Komei]

It does'ntsolve the problem of oil being incredibly polluting and bad for the environment though.

Electric and Hydrogen fuel cells are the power of the future for vehicles.

[anarch]

Hydrogen.

[Lexion]

Christ what a bump.

Good one, though.

[anarch]

Discovery Could End Energy Crisis

Researcher: Discovery could end energy crisis



TIFTON —

A Tifton agricultural researcher says he has found the solution to the world’s energy crisis through genetic modification and cloning of bacterial organisms that can convert bio-mass into hydrocarbons on a grand scale. The local researcher believes his groundbreaking discovery could result in the production of 500 to 1,000 barrels of hydrocarbon fuel per day from the initial production facility. The hydrocarbon fuel — commonly known as oil or fossil fuel when drilled — will require no modification to automobiles, oil pipelines or refineries as they exist today and could forever end the United States’ dependence on foreign oil, he said.

http://www.tiftongazette.com/archivesearch/local_story_075215425.html
(http://www.tiftongazette.com/archivesearch/local_story_075215425.html%3Cbr%20/%3E)

These people are just a few miles up the road from where I live. This can be a fantastic development because we can turn unused crop residue even yard trash into fuel. This can help us become less dependent on foreign oil.

Behold the amazing things we can do with GM life organisms...

[Red Skare]

Fuck that, crude oil is about as organic as you get. I wish i had a car that ran on burning tires.

[Chorlton]

Wouldnt fish oil be better for you than burning tyres?
Then again there are several power stations in the UK using waste Tyres for fuel

[Red Skare]

Probably, but it does not matter i really do not care if my car runs off it or not i just want to burn some tires.

[apeci]

working link: http://tiftongazette.com/local/x323693331/Researcher-Discovery-could-end-energy-crisis

I hope they program an off switch.

[Hazelnut]

What we don't know can hurt us.

Another major concern about Tire Derived Fuel is the enormous lack of knowledge about a wide range of potential dangers. This has been painfully apparent even in the pro-TDF reports. What follows is a selection of quotes from the California Air Pollution Control Officers Association (CAPCOA) report. The quotes were originally isolated for analysis by Dr. Seymour I. Schwartz, a professor of environmental science and policy at University of California at Davis.


"Effects of exposure to more than one carcinogen or toxicant are also not quantified in the risk assessment [on tire burning in CAPCOA's report]. Many examples of additivity or synergism (effects greater than additive) are known" (CAPCOA, 1993; p. I-3).
"Additionally, there may be chemicals which pose health risks but are not considered in a given risk assessment for a number of reasons, including lack of information on toxicity" (CAPCOA, 1993; p. I-3).
"The estimates of cancer potency in humans contain many sources of uncertainty. . . . Differences in these factors . . . cannot be easily quantified and incorporated into risk assessment . . . . Other uncertainties arise in the assumptions underlying the dose-response model used." (CAPCOA, 1993; p. I-4).

In his letter to the California Integrated Waste Management Board, Dr. Schwartz also notes that "Virtually nothing is known about the dose-response functions for important categories of health effects, particularly disruptions to the hormone systems of humans, which could produce life long damage in developing infants. Also, virtually nothing is known about the health effects caused by combinations of toxic chemicals that are emitted when burning tires. Without such scientific knowledge, and because some toxic pollutants increase from burning tires, there is no scientific basis for the Board to conclude that burning waste tires in cement kilns is safe." 6 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#6)

Toxic Pollution from Burning Tire Derived Fuel

So far we have looked at the disturbing unreliability of the existing pro-TDF studies, the special problems posed by burning tires in paper mill boilers, and the alarming lack of knowledge about a wide range of potential dangers that tire incineration may pose to the health and safety of our communities and the environment. This next section will take a closer look at the existing record and find that even based on the limited knowledge that exists, it is already clearly evident that tire incineration is dangerous.
Below is a breakdown of some of the condemning test data, organized by chemical groupings:

Dioxins and Furans

Dioxins (http://www.ejnet.org/dioxin/) are highly toxic and cause serious health problems, including infertility, learning disabilities, endometriosis, sexual reproductive disorders, birth defects, damage to the immune system and cancer. Dioxin is fat-soluble and once it's released into the outside environment, it readily climbs up the food chain, causing average meat and dairy-product consumers to get over 95% of their dioxin exposure through their diet.7 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#7) In fact, according to the World Health Organization, the most toxic forms of dioxin are considered to be the most carcinogenic (cancer causing) substances known to science.8 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#8) Even a very tiny quantity of dioxins can be dangerous. According to an EPA's Dioxin Reassessment, exposure to dioxins, even at minute levels, poses cancer risks and health concerns wider than previously suspected.9 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#9) Deceptively small dioxin emission rates (for example, 0.0236 grams/year for the now-closed tire incinerator in Modesto, California) conceal the harmfulness of these deadly chemicals. Based on the EPA's "risk specific dose" criteria, 0.0236 grams/year is the equivalent of a lifetime maximum acceptable dose for over two million people.3 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#3)
Dioxins and furans are chemicals that are created by burning chlorine (or other halogens, like fluorine or bromine) in the presence of hydrocarbons and oxygen. Hydrocarbons (the bulk of the TDF itself, as well as coal, wood or gas it's co-fired with) and oxygen (from the air) are readily available when TDF is incinerated. Dioxins and furans are produced by tire incineration because tires contain chlorine. The manufacture of synthetic rubber for tires uses up to 25% aromatic extender oils, a toxic waste product of oil refining which can contain chlorine. Another possible source of chlorine in tires is through the use of the "salt-bath" vulcanization process, a process where the rubber is made more elastic.10 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#10) One major source of chlorine in tires is their halogenated butyl rubber liners. The addition of chlorine or bromine (the latter used more widely for truck tires) to the butyl rubber gives liners the air-impermeability required to maintain proper tire inflation.11 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#11) A content comparison by the state of California indicates that tires may contain as much as two to five times the chlorine level of western coal, with an average of 0.04 weight percent for western coal, and a range of 0.07 to 0.2 weight percent for tires.12 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#12). The largest proponents of TDF burning (the Rubber Manufacturers Association) confirmed this on their own website, when they listed the chlorine content of tires as being 0.149 - 0.150 % by weight.13 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#13) An extensive EPA survey of the chemical composition of fuels burned in coal plants found chlorine levels in tires to be 2% higher (1,064 ppm average from 149 samples) than the national average for bituminous coal (1,043 ppm average from 27,352 samples) -- the most widely used type of coal, which also has the highest average concentration of chlorine of any coal type. Since chlorine levels in coal vary throughout the nation, it's possible that the chlorine content of tires could be far higher or lower than coal burned at any specific facility.14 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#14)

Certain metals present in tires (http://www.energyjustice.net/sites/default/files/tires/files/scrapchn.html#anchor545131) (such as copper, iron, manganese, nickel, sodium and zinc)10 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#10) serve as catalysts for dioxin formation (http://www.ejnet.org/dioxin/catalysts.html), providing a surface on which dioxins can readily form during and after the combustion process.15 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#15) The greater chlorine content of tires combined with the presence of these metal catalysts is the likely reason why burning tires with coal has been found to produce more dioxin pollution than burning only coal. Increased dioxin emissions have been found in most of the tests conducted where dioxin emissions at facilities burning 100% coal were compared to those co-firing 4-30% TDF.

Data From TDF Content
(% TDF compared
to 100% coal) Dioxins/Furans 4 California Cement Kilns6 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#6),16-22 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#16) <20% Increased between 53% and 100% 5 Canadian Cement Kilns23 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#23) Increased 37% and 247% in two tests
Decreased 54% and 55% in two other tests Victorville, CA Cement Kiln24 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#24) 24.6% Dioxins increased 139-184%

Furans increased 129% Cupertino, CA Cement Kiln26 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#26) Increased 30% Davenport, CA Cement Kiln24 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#24),27 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#27) 30% Dioxins increased 398% and 1,425% in two tests

Furans increased 58% and 2,230% in two tests Davenport, CA Cement Kiln28 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#28) 20% Increased 25% Lucerne Valley, CA Cement Kiln29 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#29) 20% Dioxins and some dibenzofurans increased Chester, PA Paper Mill30 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#30) 4-8% Increased 4,140% U Iowa, Iowa City, IA Industrial Boiler2 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#2) 4% Decreased 44% U Iowa, Iowa City, IA Industrial Boiler2 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#2) 8% Decreased 83% Other Chorine-Based Pollutants
In addition to dioxins and furans, a number of other harmful chemicals are emitted from incineration of chlorine-based substances in tires.3 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#3),25 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#25),26 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#26),28 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#28)

Among the halocarbons emitted during tests at TDF incinerators are PCBs, dichlorobenzene, trichlorobenzene, tetrachlorobenzene, hexachlorobenzene, chlorophenol, and dichlorophenol, which are all highly toxic compounds and are all either proven or suspected to be carcinogenic.31 (http://www.energyjustice.net/tires/#31)

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[Red Skare]

Yeah that is pretty much the biggest bunch of bullshit ever. Burning tires is an excelent source of energy, without burning tires there would not be 1/2 as many stars in the sky as there is now. The "toxins" that come from burning them only harm pussy faggots, you would never seen The duke bitchin about tire fumes.