Future Fuels: 10 Alternatives to Crude Oil that can be made Locally »
Posted By aust 1 year, 6 months ago in Business & FinanceInstead of reaching to the end of the earth, dealing with cartels and dictators, lets get going with crude oil alternatives and look for the fuels of the future.
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Wolfie20071 year, 6 months ago
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Last night I read an article about synthetic oil made from one celled organisms called diatoms. According to the article diatoms will produce synthetic oil from sunlight and water. Some diatoms varieties are up to 50% oil. The oil is of such high quality it doesn't need to be refined. Once set up to multiply and then to harvest these little oil factories just keep multiplying.
If this is true diatoms should be on that list.
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sotiris-k1 year, 6 months ago
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We need carbon too(take CO2 from atmosphere). It has to be some bioengineered modification of photosynthesis where the created organism has specific chemical reactions cycles that lead to useful products. You need to work on photosystem 2 modification to maximize the rates of production of predetermined products. A natural organism has clearly many functions. It doesnt exist to produce what we view as useful only. Most of its cycle serves several purposes. If you modify that and create a slave organism with very small life cycle the efficiency with which the useful products are created will be greater than the one seen in nature where photosynthesis leads to glucose production. You modify the end product to be a Hydrocarbon or H2 and the life cycle of the organism to serve a vastly asymmetrical procedure that is taylored around the production of fuel and not the wellfare of the organism (plants dont produce only glucose they serve other functions as well so arent as efficient)
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Xaos1 year, 6 months ago
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As a home biodiesel maker I can say on a small scall this works very well. In my area there is a good amount of used cooking oil to be found and methanol is readily available. Large scale I fear that biodiesel would be troubled by similar problems as Ethanol.
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CHAM1 year, 6 months ago
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The article stated that South Africa produces about 30% of their oil from coal.
I believe that figure is low, I think the majority of their energy needs are met by coal liquification.
Also of intrest is that the coal to oil process was perfected by an American Company ( ITT ) in the 30's.
An American company I worked for before I retired developed a slurry that would stay in suspension in tank farms and during piping. This Oil from coal was also de-sulfered using a genetic bug. Finally the process was licensed to several Foreign Countries. At the time it was about 10% more expensive than wellhead oil. That wouldn't be true today. The U S has enough Coal reserves to supply our current energy needs for about 1000 years.
There are other countries that meet their energy needs without any heavy reliance from oil.
But not the good ole US of A. Why do you think that is? Could it be Business and Government in cahoots?
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tiredofwhiners1 year, 6 months ago
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I recall that South Africa developed coal gasification based on 1940's German technology. They did it when Apartheid was still in force to gain energy independence. I heard at the time that they were successful.
Probably coal gasification isn't happening yet because of the unpredictable nature of the oil commodity market. Many have been burned when oil was high and they started an alternative method, only to be undercut by a drop in oil prices.
I wouldn't speculate on oil-gov't. in cahoots. I think it is lack of vision and leadership in gov't. Remember the gas lines in the 1970's? Nothing much was learned in 35 years.
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Natalie11831 year, 6 months ago
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Did anyone see these cars that run on water? Supposedly like in the article, they separate the hydrogen from the oxygen and have no emissions.
We have a diesel car now, and it burns nothing compared to a gasoline vehicle. I would easily trade it in for a water burning model.
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tiredofwhiners1 year, 6 months ago
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Someone mentioned fusion power, a distant future possibility. Then there's shale oil in the Rockies (more oil there than all the world's in the ground liquid reserves). Coal gasification is a good possibility. In any case environmentalists and global warming people don't want any burning of fuels that produce CO2. That rules out all except hydro, nuclear, solar and wind power.
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tiredofwhiners1 year, 6 months ago
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In the 1980's I was involved in a plan to grow, harvest, ferment, and distill ethanol from cat tails. A test plot in Florida showed the tubers of cat tails yielded about 4 times the ethanol per acre compared to traditonal sources such as corn. We tried to purchase some properties and existing wineries in the California central valley where multiple crops per year could be grown. Then the price of oil dropped and we had to give it up. The lesson learned is that oil prices can change according to the competition and innovators are left holding the bag. Only a federally guaranteed price support could have saved this new industry. I wonder what's happening now re cat tails? How about guaranteeing prices for domestic oil from shale or coal gasification?
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