Democrats Need to Get Off Capitol Hill to Win the Gas Price War
While I admire Reid for what he's done I think he is incorrect in the assumption he made that the Democrats are winning on the energy and gas price issue.
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This has the promise of providing the minute amount of fuel needed for generating heat for the Air Car operated at higher speeds.
http://zeropollutionmotors.us/?page_id=38
......roads, where we're going we don't need roads.......
What? This isn't a Mr Fusion power source?
Peak Oil is solved!
yahoo!
what...?, you want govt. money to subsidize it?
ok...,
what are the numbers?
how much garbage do we generate in a year?
how many cars are on the road?
and how much fuel can that garbage make?
high gas prices lead to charlatans selling elixers to make money off of fools
Given that the major consumers of fossil fuels tend to also be the major producers of garbage (e.g. the U.S., China, India, etc.) this is a technology that makes sense on so many levels.
This is the kind of "alternative" energy production that the Government should (and should have been for the last 30 years) be putting its full support behind. Tax credits, or straight out funding, should be provided immediately in order to "jump start" this industry and get it up and running as quickly as possible.
Instead of having our nation loading our garbage on boats that travel around the world looking for a country willing to allow us to dump in their backyard, we could be reducing the total tonnage of our waste and using a significant amount of it to reduce our dependence on M.E. Oil.
Guess that all makes too much sense for our politicians.
unfortunately until recently it was not economically feasable. The cost to produce the fuel would have been so much greater than the cost to buy it plus the cost to dispose of the waste. Unfortunately this technology is dependant on a steady stream of organic waste so it like most alternative energy sources has limited applications. It's a great boon for animal farning though. All the waste can be quickly processed rather than get into ground soil etc.
I've loved these plants for years. They run off of natural gass which is an offshoot of the conversion process and can put excess electricity produced back into the grid. byproducts of the process can be refined into industrial resources and you can through parameters of the production process get out driveable fuels on tap, no further refinement necessary. They will work on any biological refuse from manure to yard clippings. All at the price of about 40$ per barrel. They totally rock.
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