2013-05-23T23:52:45-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8789&Focus=256393#Comment_256393 2010-08-21T11:33:06-07:00 2013-05-23T23:52:45-07:00 Don Hilliard http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5974

From Scotland (where else?) comes a process for making biofuel from distillery byproducts. I suspect somewhere an oil company's marketing department is already saying "Screw Techron! We're ...

making biofuel from distillery byproducts.

I suspect somewhere an oil company's marketing department is already saying "Screw Techron! We're doing Red Label, Green Label & Black Label!"

(And made me think of a gag a friend in Oklahoma recently passed on; apparently the State dropped its requirement for ethanol in gasoline, so many stations started advertising alcohol-free gas...and one of his local liquor stores put up a "gas-free alcohol" sign.)]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8789&Focus=256397#Comment_256397 2010-08-21T12:39:43-07:00 2013-05-23T23:52:45-07:00 roadscum http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7712

I do wonder what all the fuss is about when your average diesel engine will run quite happily on warmed up vegetable oil. Couldn't possibly be something to do with all those people making huge ...

warmed up vegetable oil. Couldn't possibly be something to do with all those people making huge amounts of money from mineral oil and petroleum (both production and taxation) could it? Nah, i'm just a silly, paranoid old git, me...]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8789&Focus=256473#Comment_256473 2010-08-21T19:15:29-07:00 2013-05-23T23:52:45-07:00 Orpheus http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6151

I enjoy the idea that distillery by-products are being used for biofuels, but really... I think Brazil did this on a much more grand scale... First by making Cachaça. And then by making the ...

First by making Cachaça.
And then by making the worlds first sustainable biofuel economy.

Sugarcane! The possibilities are endless.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8789&Focus=256482#Comment_256482 2010-08-21T20:23:31-07:00 2013-05-23T23:52:45-07:00 sacredchao http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1501

@ Roadscum & Orpheus The problem with biofuels is they turn farmland that could otherwise be used for food crops into cash crops, thus making people in the developing nations in which they are ...

The problem with biofuels is they turn farmland that could otherwise be used for food crops into cash crops, thus making people in the developing nations in which they are produced dependent on foreign countries for food supplies. Also, biodiesel still emits carbon, though it doesn't emit a lot of the really nasty chemicals that petroleum products do.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8789&Focus=256500#Comment_256500 2010-08-21T22:31:02-07:00 2013-05-23T23:52:45-07:00 stevencudahy http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=158

Heh. All environmental and economic problems aside, I'd like a car that ran on actual whisky, with a little tap on the dashboard so you could enjoy a bit of liquid refreshment at journey's end. Of ...

Of course, there would have to be some kind of breathalyser built in so you couldn't start the car without being safe to drive. I am, after all, a responsible drunk.

S.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8789&Focus=256540#Comment_256540 2010-08-22T11:03:57-07:00 2013-05-23T23:52:45-07:00 mister hex http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4411

Am I the only one that remembers Homer Simpson and te alcohol-fuelled car? "One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me."

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8789&Focus=256548#Comment_256548 2010-08-22T12:15:02-07:00 2013-05-23T23:52:45-07:00 looneynerd http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5373

See, I would have figured this would have been an Irish invention...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8789&Focus=256550#Comment_256550 2010-08-22T12:32:39-07:00 2013-05-23T23:52:45-07:00 government spy http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6088

The Irish would politely remind you that whisky works just fine; there is no need to add a car to it.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8789&Focus=256551#Comment_256551 2010-08-22T12:35:24-07:00 2013-05-23T23:52:45-07:00 John Skylar http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8976

The thing that I find most exciting about this is that it could be used for aviation fuel. We have a lot of alternatives for road fuel, but plane fuel's been really tough to crack. It would be nice ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8789&Focus=256684#Comment_256684 2010-08-23T14:11:34-07:00 2013-05-23T23:52:45-07:00 roadscum http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7712

@John Skylar: I wonder, would warmed up vegetable oil do here as well? I remember a mate who had some military flying experience telling me that a Lynx helicopter could run on straight diesel for a ...

tried something a while ago.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8789&Focus=256692#Comment_256692 2010-08-23T15:17:25-07:00 2013-05-23T23:52:45-07:00 Artenshiur http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8804

@sacredchao: While biofuels do technically release carbon, all of that carbon was captured by a plant in the recent past, whereas the carbon from oil was trapped millions of years ago. It's the ...

As to whiskey... while there are much technically better alternatives in my opinion, this one has the beneficial side effect of whiskey, which I support.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8789&Focus=256709#Comment_256709 2010-08-23T18:29:05-07:00 2013-05-23T23:52:45-07:00 John Skylar http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8976

@roadscum I think oil biodiesel lacks the energy density to run a jet engine. There was a lot of promise from Virgin's coconut thing, I agree, but I don't know if it's gone anywhere since, which is ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8789&Focus=256712#Comment_256712 2010-08-23T19:12:34-07:00 2013-05-23T23:52:45-07:00 Brendan McGinley http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=93

Algae pods, man, that's where the future lies.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8789&Focus=256770#Comment_256770 2010-08-24T07:19:56-07:00 2013-05-23T23:52:45-07:00 sacredchao http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1501

@artenshiur - Interesting. I'd never thought of it that way. But either way, doesn't it still release carbon into the atmosphere that would normally go back into the ground or into our stomachs?

Interesting. I'd never thought of it that way. But either way, doesn't it still release carbon into the atmosphere that would normally go back into the ground or into our stomachs?]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8789&Focus=256784#Comment_256784 2010-08-24T09:24:05-07:00 2013-05-23T23:52:45-07:00 Artenshiur http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8804

@sacredchao: Both of those biological cycles result in the relevant hydrocarbons being metabolized by something, either you or whatever microbes etc in the ground enjoy that sort of thing. The ...

@Brendan: I, too, like algae. Not for eating, though.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8789&Focus=256867#Comment_256867 2010-08-24T17:12:16-07:00 2013-05-23T23:52:45-07:00 roadscum http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7712

@ John Skylar:I think oil biodiesel lacks the energy density to run a jet engine. Apparently not.

I think oil biodiesel lacks the energy density to run a jet engine.

Apparently not.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8789&Focus=257212#Comment_257212 2010-08-26T14:36:05-07:00 2013-05-23T23:52:45-07:00 John Skylar http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8976

@roadscum Badass. :)

Badass. :)]]>