I must admit that I’m generally skeptical of bio-fuels, but this story made me sit up and take notice.
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I must admit that I’m generally skeptical of bio-fuels, but this story made me sit up and take notice.
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The international aircraft industry, plus various and sundry air forces, have been sitting up and taking notice of synthetic fuels for aircraft for some time now. All are aware that world oil production will begin its terminal peak some time between 2012 and 2018; after which, petroleum production is not thought likely ever again to meet world petroleum demand.
I saw online about a year or two ago that the United States Airforce has a contract with synthetic fuels producer located near Freiburg, Germany to buy up much of their planned production of synthetic jet kerosene.
By the way, diesel fuel powered some of the early german zeppelins before and during World War I, and also its uses in aircraft engines have been few and far between, they have not been nonexistent.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WIÂ
I think I’ve posted about algae fuel before, Vertigro (and more in-depth video here). I consider this to be an extremely viable (but more expensive?) alternative, especially for big fleets. It basically can be custom made and does not involve a food crop.
From what I’ve heard, algae is a lot more efficient too; it takes a lot less algae than corn to make usable quantities of alcohol fuel. Or so I’ve heard.
Or we could, you know, get oil from oil shale, oil sands and other vast reserves of oil if we need to.
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If algal biodiesel fulfills its promises, it’s going to be much, much better than extracting oil from the ground and shipping it across the world.
Its potential production per acre makes corn look absolutely silly (and corn’s biodiesel production is much better than it’s ethanol production, btw).
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