THIS BLOG ATTEMPTS TO SHOW HOW SCIENCE IS CATCHING UP WITH REVEALED RELIGION

THIS BLOG IS AN ATTEMPT TO PUT ALL THE COOL STUFF THAT I BUMP INTO ABOUT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND EVENTS THAT LEAD UP TO IT INTO ONE LOCATION.
THE CONTENTS WILL BE FROM AN LDS PERSPECTIVE. IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ANYTHING IN HERE, I DO NOT PARTICULARLY CARE TO ARGUE, UNLESS YOU CAN ADD TO THIS BODY OF WORK. I HAVE AN OPEN MIND, THAT IS WHY I READ STUFF FROM ALL DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES AND SEEK LEARNING FROM THE BEST BOOKS. I JUST AM NOT HERE TO ARGUE ABOUT IT - BUT TO PUT IT OUT THERE WHERE OTHERS CAN PERUSE/PURSUE IT. I TAKE PARTICULAR INTEREST IN HONEST SEEKERS OF TRUTH AND BELIEVE THAT SCIENCE IS REVEALED RELIGION'S BEST ALLY. YOU WILL SEE ALOT OF TOPICS IN THIS BLOG THAT SHOW SCIENCE BACKING - AND SLOWLY CATCHING UP WITH - REVEALED RELIGION.
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Saturday, December 21, 2013

WOOHOO! CRUDE OIL FROM ALGAE/BIOMASS IN MINUTES!

I am WAY into alternative fuels.  This news is just awesome!  It would be awesome to throw the grass clippings into one of these (future) biomass reactors in your garage at the end of the week after mowing the lawn and pump diesel into your fuel tank before you went to work the next morning.  I have a vsion......

Geek Oil: Scientists Manufacture Biofuel from Algae in Minutes

A new scientific discovery that takes algae and turns it into crude oil in minutes rather than millions of years could be the end of constant worries over "peak oil."

Engineers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) announced that they have created a process that takes an enriched stew of algae and turns it into crude oil which, in turn, can be made into a usable bio-fuel. The development was announced in a recent issue of the journal Algal Research.
Genifuel Corp., a biofuels company from Utah, has licensed the technology and is attempting to utilize the process on a larger, industrial scale.
In a press release, PNNL described, "In the PNNL process, a slurry of wet algae is pumped into the front end of a chemical reactor. Once the system is up and running, out comes crude oil in less than an hour, along with water and a byproduct stream of material containing phosphorus that can be recycled to grow more algae."
The press release also noted that "conventional refining" is then capable of taking the man-made crude oil and turning it into usable biofuels. PNNL notes that the man-made crude can be made into "aviation fuel, gasoline, or diesel fuel."
PNNL also feels that its process has eliminated the high cost of other algae-based biofuels processes.
"Cost is the big roadblock for algae-based fuel," said Douglas Elliott, leader of the PNNL research team. "We believe that the process we've created will help make algae biofuels much more economical."
The biggest cost-saving aspect of the new process is that the PNNL team figured out how to use wet algae, whereas most other formulas require the algae to be in a dry form.
"Not having to dry the algae is a big win in this process; that cuts the cost a great deal. Then there are bonuses, like being able to extract usable gas from the water and then recycle the remaining water and nutrients to help grow more algae, which further reduces costs," Elliot said.
Another exciting development in this new process is that the system works continuously. Other attempts created biofuels in single batches, but this new process works more like an assembly line in a continuously moving and producing system.
The new process also dispenses with the use of toxic chemicals and solvents to separate the energy-rich oils from the algae. The process uses high heat and pressure instead.
"It's a bit like using a pressure cooker, only the pressures and temperatures we use are much higher," Elliott said. "In a sense, we are duplicating the process in the Earth that converted algae into oil over the course of millions of years. We're just doing it much, much faster."
Perhaps it won't be long before humanity manufacturing its own oil eliminates the question of whether to drill the earth for it.

1 comment:

  1. Way into alternatve fuels are you? Then check out the work of my former stake president, Bruce Dale, and promote it, dude!! Can't believe Montana, with its vast prairies, isn't jumping right on the switchgrass bandwagon but would rather frack. That's right, the next Williston ND is going to be somewhere near Shelby MT, where they want to repeat the same scenerio.

    http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_and_fracking
    http://cutbankpioneerpress.com/articles/2012/05/16/shelby_promoter/news/doc4fb2d8e69654b751615391.txt
    http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/life-in-a-fracking-boomtown-m.html

    Compare, instead, to the work of my friend, Professor Bruce Dale of Michigan State University.

    http://www.everythingbiomass.org/

    Just a few of many videos about Bruce Dale and/or grassoline on YouTube
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNSdrASfNWk
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnri3ZPknf4
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMa-H9-wuZc

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