Synfuels

You are hearing about it, or at least the precursors. The wholesale and massive changes that need to take place within the economy as a whole will happen incrementally.

What you need to realise is that for a real alternative to oil to present itself there needs to be changes to transport which means researching new or modified propulsion systems, research and acceptance of new agricultural systems, research into processing industry to proceess the fuels. etc etc etc.

Its a chicken and egg situation. No - one will put the time and money into motor vehicals unless there is a fuel system and no-one will put the time into a fuel processing system unless there is a raw product to work with and no-one will plant the enormouse amounts of land required with crops unless there is a real prospect of a transport system that can use the fuel.

Event Type: Conference/Seminar
Date: May 27-29, 2008
Venue: Elmia
Location: Jönköping, Sweden

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Now you are really hearing about it.

A report by DAve Pimentel was featured in SLATE. Hes been studying synfuels for 30 years and hes a massive supporter of retorting the oil shale reserves which are over 6 Trillion barrels world wide and almost 3 trillion in the US alone

FM as the artical in Slate says, It depends who you ask.

The article by Pimentel is rather quantitative and really has no dog in the fight other than to consider an energy balance.

heres a long night in front of the for for those so inclined.


S. Phillips, A. Aden, J. Jechura, D. Dayton and T. Eggeman (2007). Thermochemical Ethanol via Indirect Gasification and Mixed Alcohol Synthesis of Lignocellulosic Biomass. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Prepared under Task No. BB07.3710. Technical Report NREL/TP-510-41168, 132pp. April 2007.

http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy07osti/41168.pdf accessed 8th April 2008

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