Fuel Tanks Made of Corncob Waste

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @07:13AM from the corncob-pipes dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "The National Science Foundation is running a story on how corncob waste can be used to created carbon briquettes with complex nanopores capable of storing natural gas. These methane storage systems may encourage mass-market natural gas cars. In fact, these 'briquettes are the first technology to meet the 180 to 1 storage to volume target set by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2000.' They can lead to flat and compact tanks and have already been installed in a pickup truck used regularly by the Kansas City Office of Environmental Quality. And as the whole natural gas infrastructure exists already, this new technology could be soon adopted by car manufacturers."

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Re:Infrastrucutre in place? by AP2k · 2007-02-21 07:30 · Score: 1, Offtopic

There is a site online that has a database telling the location of E85 or straight ethanol distributors. For my state, the only one is a space center. So much for corn ethanol. Ive been saying it for quite some time that corn ethanol is a pipe dream and will always be that, but thats for another topic. http://www.e85refueling.com/