[TheForge] OT biodiesel

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Hey Todd:
What do we do with the waste? Our society won't last as long as it 
remains deadly..and the volume keeps mounting up....Pete F

Todd Rich wrote:
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> On Wed, 25 May 2005, David E. Smucker wrote:
> (snip)
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>> As to the large oil / energy folks not going the way of biodiesel than 
>> is kind of par for new stuff.  The wrought iron folks didn't think 
>> Bessemer had anything with this mild steel stuff, nor did the US steel 
>> companies think that BOF was the way to make steel after WWII.  (lots 
>> of other examples out there too.)
>>
>> While he was still on here, I think Dave Brown was working on a 
>> biodiesel fired forge.  Hope Dave is doing OK.
>>
>> Dave Smucker
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> 
> The problem is there isn't enough biomass available to make enough 
> biodiesel to supply our current energy needs.  If you took all the 
> biomass in California and converted it with 100% efficientcy, you could 
> supply the energy needs of the US for 6 weeks.
> 
> However, now that the Greens are starting to realize there are new 
> inherently safe reactor designs, there is a chance to build enough of 
> them to move over to a hydrogen economy.
>             Todd
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