hmmmmmm...... interesting read, but not sure I trust the source.
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Some good news?
by JonM » Tue 05 Jul 2005, 08:37:09
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Re: Some good news?
by MacG » Tue 05 Jul 2005, 08:59:20
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JonM', 'h')mmmmmm...... interesting read, but not sure I trust the source.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Features/ ... _after_oil
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Features/ ... _after_oil
Nothing new. Take any kind of stuff containing hydrogen and carbon, heat it to 1200 C under 20-30 bar pressure, and voila! You got CO and H2 (and usually water). After drying, the easiest thing to do is dimethylether (vapour pressure of about 5 bar but is running in converted diesel engines), but expending a little more energy you could run it over an iron catalyser and get a hydrocarbon mixture suitable for distillation. This latest thing is called Fischer-Tropsch synthesis and has been around since the 1930's.
The only problem is scale. You need to find raw material to stuff into the process. Here in Sweden where we have a hell of a lot of forrests and hardly any people (under 9 million) the lignine from our forrest industry is calculated to be able to replace about 40% of áll the diesel consumed in this country. But since our neighbourghs in the south (Denmark, Germany and France and such) have quite a different balance between people and trees, and have a hell of a lot more people, any hydrocarbons produced by us in a post-PO world would sell at prices precluding its use as transportation fuel.
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