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AgroWaste Oil Plant Starts Production
An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo, and others has a story about the first Waste-to-Oil plant going online, and selling the oil commercially. Using TCP (Thermal Conversion Process), the plant is producing 100-200 barrels of No. 4 oil a day, and has the capacity to produce up to 500 barrels per day. With the amount of agricultural waste in the U.S., and many more of these plants, we could possibly reduce our need for foreign oil."
I get sick to the back teeth just steppinig out the door and watching all these people incapable of running their day without their blasted cars every (cough) step of the way, and I live in the UK. Thanks to a partial infection of your culture, our country is half covered in "big" out of town stores totally reliant on cars, although thankfully that trend seems to be taking a slight rebound. If you have any idea how much I resent the american attitude to fuel. You think you pay high gasoline prices? hehehe... You don't realise how poor, dependent, greedy and self indulgent the rest of the world sees your way of life, considering the damaging nature of the energy source and unsustainable future. Well done those "NIMBYs", and I hope your fuel prices treble.
I saw a fully functional solar car today. It was all terrain, homeostatic and self-replicating, environmentally friendly to boot!
It is sometimes called a horse.
The idea that we are going to meet our energy requirements via agriculture output is to essentially put us back to pre-industrial age. It is based on ecomomics of scarcity, which is not only an unpleasant idea, it is also not likely to happen.
There is no energy crisis. There is only environmental hand-wringing.
There are a couple of ways are going to make energy on a large scale in the future, and its not going to be based on recycling! We will first move to non-oil fossil fuel economy (which we largely are now), and then, to nuclear and extra-terrestrial solar. This will happen purely based on the fact that consumers wont tolerate less. When lifestyles start to suffer because of true power shortages, to a noticeable degree, the kid gloves will come off and "hard" decisions will be made.
The problem is we need CHEAPER oil, not to stop driving SUVs. Sheesh. Some people need the extra room that an SUV like the Chevy Suburban or the Ford Excursion offer to their family. YOU try carting around 3 pre-teen boys in a sedan sometime. They need to be constantly seperated and entertained. That means lots of space and a DVD/LCD system in the back along with a game console and music.. seperate radios if possible with wireless headphones. Do you think your average Honda hybrid vehicle will satisfy these requirements? Hell no. Don't even mention mini-vans because you might as well chop off a guy's balls and stick them in his wife's purse if you're going to make him drive a minivan. No, REAL men prefer huge SUVs. Now, who the fuck do we have to invade to get $1/gallon gas again? Russia? Iran? Saudi Arabia? Canada?
There is a reason for everything. Sometimes that reason just sucks.