Green Gasoline? Scientists Produce $1/Gallon Gasoline From Non-Food Plant Material

Scientists Produce $1/Gallon Gasoline From Non-Food Plant Material - Gas 2.0

Unfortunately, this article is so vague as to be useless for real information. There is a bunch of hand-waving and a reference which names a researcher, but no mention of a paper or a publication date. Looking up “Huber GW Amherst” finds the author and a bunch of bio-fuel related stuff, but nothing which is obviously THE source for the article. This system sounds a lot like gasification followed by Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, which works with practically any feedstock which contains carbon. So far so good, but the combination is only about 50% efficient. Worse, we’d run out of feedstock before we slaked our thirst; our energy consumption from petroleum is a LOT greater than half our possible biological productivity from higher plants. And no, coal won’t help. The USA is hard-put to mine 30 quadrillion BTU/year of coal, while we use ~40 quadrillion BTU/year of oil. Anyone wh...

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