Comments on: Ethanol From Carbon Waste

By: motoxyogi

motoxyogi — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:01:15 +0000

Not sure if this is applicable to this thread but bike magazine http://www.bikemagazine.co.uk/ recently started a project to convert a Daytona 675 to run on cider(not literally of course). So should be interesting to see if a. they can get it running and b. if there are any performance gains

By: ROHORN

ROHORN — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:12:56 +0000

Hey mang, I am not ethanol, (hic)…….

Hoyt,

I don’t, in any way, mean to imply that $4.00 gas (or higher) is a good thing! Gone are the days of putting in a 500 mile day (including lunch stop) for under $20.00. But a day on a motorcycle is still the cheapest form of motorsport out there.

As intriguing as I find EVs (in theory more than practice), developments like this are why I think EVs won’t take over the world.

Has anyone read the book “The Methanol Economy”?

By: kneeslider

kneeslider — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:04:44 +0000

Or, of course, the other sci-fi film “Clean Green” where the hero cries out, “Ethanol is People!”

By: GenWaylaid

GenWaylaid — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:16:58 +0000

ANY carbon feedstock, eh? Anyone else imagining a 1970s-style sci-fi horror film in which robotic monster SUVs run down and eat people for fuel? “Mad Max: Beyond Hungerdome.”

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:07:33 +0000

I'm still wondering why thermal depolymerization hasn't taken off, since it seems to work on almost any feedstock that contains carbon chains longer than a few atoms. For those of you who slept through high school chemistry, that includes all plastics, rubber, and any plant materials. About the only things you can't feed it are metal (can't turn metal into oil, sorry, though it can deal with small amounts of metal in the feedstock, like with tires) and radioactive waste (since the output would be radioactive as well). Biohazard waste is no problem since the process sterilizes everything. cl