Fuel for thought

[thedr9wningman]

New technique creates cheap, abundant hydrogen: report - Yahoo! News: deprivation  showed me this this morning.  It seems like something that catstab would post.

My hesitation with hydrogen as a fuel is distribution.  But knowing that hydgrogenated oils not only clog your arteries, but potentially give liquid fuels a boost may be a good solution.

Comments

[catstab]

I haven't been up on my postings but here are a few for you.
Oil from Wood
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/19694/
and
Focusing Light on Silicon Beads

Placing tiny spheres of silicon in reflective trays could be the key to cheap, efficient solar cells.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/19696/

[sirwilliam]

you said wood.

[catstab]

Oil up the wood baby.

[nixzusehen]

And produced here at Penn State apparently.... cool.

[sirwilliam]

There's a lot of theoretically cool stuff in the pipeline... I'm going to believe it when one of them goes into production.

Has anyone done a study of the potential chemical energy stored in leftover biomass? I'm wondering how much of our energy needs we can meet without cultivating more land.