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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2013.Kawasaki Heavy develops cost-competitive way to make ethanol from farm waste
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Bruce Miller
Farm wastes, manures, humanures, human excrement, sewage) all make methane. Methane stores in standard propane bottles. Methane fuels cars already? Going to methanol might impose a cost that simply is not worth the trouble?
WilliB
Well, that means setting the bar not very high at all! Growing food plants to produce alcohols is absurdly expensive as an energy source (think of using your local liquor shop as a gas station substitute...).
If they want to present a viable alternative to fossil fuels, they have to do way better than that. As it stands, this is more government-subsidy based-waste for reasons of political correctness. In other words: Green insanity.
BigdaddyJ
Japanese technology at work. Continue research so we stop depending on fossil fuels from unstable countries who hold nations hostage.
Ron Barnes
The use of garbage and sewerage mix would make a better fermentation product for extracting a fuel from.