On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 21:15:23 -0500, philo* wrote:

On 03/21/2014 03:56 PM, bob haller wrote:

It can be a energy positive by creating ethanol from things other than corn, like grass, waste vegetable matter etc.

Years ago I had a bunch of trees trimmed and had them chipped. they were left in a big pile......

fermented creating alcohol. my knowledgable neighbor warned me to spread them out or they could catch on fire....

there are commercial operators trying to get this tech to work dependaby

another source is running coal fired power stations exhaust thru big tubes filled with water and algea, which grows great from the CO2 in the exhaust. This cuts CO2 emmisions by 1/2 and the algea is fermented into ethanol




The US has huge landfills. There are some countries that burn their wast
to produce energy rather than bury it. Yes, it could cause air pollution
but if it was filtered the way you mentioned the air could be kept
pretty clean.
At Waterloo Regional Landfill, we have several large Cat generators
running on Methane "landfill gas" - enough power to light a small
town. The old Kitchener dump provided gas for a large concrete pipe
manufacturer.