[buddylee]

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/ ... tor_2.html?

Comments?

[Prince]

Interesting, but the cynic in me, including the fact that we've seen hundreds of these baseless energy promises in the last 5 years, makes me believe this isn't true.

Did I read correctly: an approximate 17-1 EROEI? That alone seems highly optimistic.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')very hour, the first commercial version will turn 10 tons of auto waste—tires, plastic, vinyl—into enough natural gas to produce 17 million BTUs of energy (it will use 956,000 of those BTUs to keep itself running).