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13 Dec 09

The Biofuel Future - Science News

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Hemp might have a viable contribution for biofuel, but I would also like to see articles on biofuels include salicornia, which is edible (sea asparagus), thrives in salty, brackish waters, and is estimated to provide solutions to world hunger and fuel needs far into the future. The best aspect of this plant is it will thrive where conventional farming has failed, reclaiming lands considered dead! Global Seawater, Inc. already has a small refinery creating biofuels.

Hemp Biomass for Energy

A summary survey of energy crops with a focus on demonstrating hemp is viable economically in several areas such as ethanol, fiber and bio-diesel.

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This paper does attempt to
explore the options available, and outlines some of the barriers and
opportunities regarding them.
Biomass to be burned is
typically valued at $30-50 per ton, which makes whole stalk hemp as biomass to
be burned impractical due to the high value of its bast fiber.
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- Industrial hemp can be grown
  in most climates and on marginal soils. It requires little or no herbicide and
  no pesticide, and uses less water than cotton. Measurements at Ridgetown
  College indicate the crop needs 300-400 mm (10-13 in.) of rainfall equivalent.
  Yields will vary according to local conditions and will range from 1.5 to 6 dry
  tons of biomass per acre
- Grown for oilseed, Canadian
  grower's yields average 1 tonne/hectare, or about 400 lbs. per acre. Cannabis
  seed contains about 28% oil (112 lbs.), or about 15 gallons per acre.
- Production costs using these figures would be about $35 per gallon.
- We will address these in turn and show why a
  dedicated energy crop holds important potential for ethanol production in
  California, why hemp is a good candidate as a dedicated energy crop, and how it
  may represent the fastest track to meeting 34% of California's upcoming ethanol
  market demand of at least 580-750 million gallons per year
- There
  are currently two projects underway proposing to use rice straw: one in
  California (Gridley) and one in Jennings, LA. If the Gridley project is fully
  implemented, it will add 25 million gallons of production to California's
  already-thin 9 million gallons per year. Barriers include collection costs and
  the high silica content (13%) of rice straw.
- The Fuel and Fiber Company
  Method[xii] employs a mechanical separation step
  to extract the high-value bast fiber[xiii] as a first step in processing. The
  remaining core material is to undergo conversion to alcohol and other
  co-products. There is no waste stream and the system will provide a net carbon
  reduction due to increased biomass production. Conversion efficiency of hemp
  core is relative to the lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose content and method
  used. The following table lists some materials often cited as potential sources
  of biomass and their chemical make-up.

10 May 09

Money doesn't grow on trees, but gasoline might

Finally - a method to turn cellulose to fuel.

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AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Renewables Can Turn the Tide on Global Warming

A optimistic common-sense approach to saving our future.

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ASES asked the experts in each technology to estimate how much carbon-emitting energy their technologies could displace. Each technology is conceived of as a "wedge" in a stack of wedges that add up to a replacement for fossil fuels. The report consists of separate papers on each technology, including energy efficiency, concentrating solar power, photovoltaics, windpower, biofuels and geothermal.

AlterNet: How Canada Went from 21st to 2nd in World's Oil Reserves

Amazing article on the Tar Sands project.

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The vast bulk of Canada's tar sands is found in the province of Alberta, the country's most prolific producer of fossil fuels. The tar sands deposits underlie more than 140,000 square kilometers of relatively pristine boreal forest, an area larger than the state of Florida. It's estimated that the tar sands hold approximately 1.7 trillion barrels of crude bitumen (the technical term for the fossil fuel extracted from the tar sands). But most of this bitumen will never be recovered and only a fraction, 174 billion barrels, is estimated to be recoverable with today's technology and under current and anticipated economic conditions.

20 Aug 08

Cold-Fusion Graybeards Keep the Research Coming

Cold fusion appears to be real (still)

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MIT's Peter Hagelstein, on the other hand, said "cold fusion" reactions have yielded surplus energy from as far back as the initial experiments in 1989. Verification of these controversial results is not the problem -- many labs around the world have reproduced parts of the results many times.

08 Nov 07

The western appetite for biofuels is causing starvation in the poor world | Guardian daily comment | Guardian Unlimited

Oh my Jesus.

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This summer Bob Geldof, who never misses an opportunity to promote simplistic solutions to complex problems, arrived in Swaziland in the role of "special adviser" to a biofuels firm. Because it can grow on marginal land, jatropha, he claimed, is a "life-changing" plant that will offer jobs, cash crops and economic power to African smallholders.

06 Jul 07

Inhabitat » FLOATING WIND TURBINES IN THE NORTH SEA

Floating windmills. Gee, why didn't I think of that? Wait, I did.

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Norwegian energy group Norsk Hydro is to place giant floating wind turbines in the North Sea that will provide a reasonable, environmentally-friendly and economically feasible alternative to standard energy generation processes.

“It’s attractive to have windmills out at sea, out of sight of land, away from birds’ migration routes,” said Alexandra Bech Gjoerv, head of Hydro’s New Energy division at a signing ceremony to develop floating wind turbine technology.

The design by Norsk Hydro uses a three -able tethered system, similar to the ones used in oil rigs, that holds a 200 meter tall steel tube with an attached turbine and three 60-meter-long blades. Norsk Hydro expects to be able to use this technology on sites located 50-100 miles off shore, and with a depth of up to 500 meters. Norsk Hydro’s turbine will be the first large scale prototype of its kind, expected to be installed in the North Sea by 2009. If successful, Norsk Hydro expects a full windmill to be operational by 2012.

05 Mar 07

7 reasons nuclear power is good

The case for nuclear power. A good summary and starting point.

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Biofuel DU

01 Mar 07

Antique Cannabis Book / A Price Guide to Antiques

A gem of a site!

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07 Feb 07

WorldNetDaily: Sustainable oil?

Fascinating - a total turn away from the theory that oil came from dead plant matter.

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Currently there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 680 billion barrels of Middle East reserve oil.

Creating that much oil would take a big pile of dead dinosaurs and fermenting prehistoric plants. Could there be another source for crude oil?

An intriguing theory now permeating oil company research staffs suggests that crude oil may actually be a natural inorganic product, not a stepchild of unfathomable time and organic degradation. The theory suggests there may be huge, yet-to-be-discovered reserves of oil at depths that dwarf current world estimates.

The theory is simple: Crude oil forms as a natural inorganic process which occurs between the mantle and the crust, somewhere between 5 and 20 miles deep. The proposed mechanism is as follows:

* Methane (CH4) is a common molecule found in quantity throughout our solar system – huge concentrations exist at great depth in the Earth.

* At the mantle-crust interface, roughly 20,000 feet beneath the surface, rapidly rising streams of compressed methane-based gasses hit pockets of high temperature causing the condensation of heavier hydrocarbons. The product of this condensation is commonly known as crude oil.