DIRECT TO ETHANOL

GREENBACKS: Even in hot, sunny places like Florida, there are still seasons when production slows down due to weather.
PHOTO: ERIK KELLAR PHOTOGRAPHY

How It Works   
The clear plastic bags used in the direct-to-ethanol technology look like giant hanging file folders. Each bag is 10 feet by four feet, 2 inches deep and has capacity of 50 liters. The bag is filled with saltwater, which is inoculated with algae culture. All green plants, including algae, take in water and CO2 from the atmosphere, and combine those elements as a precursor to sugar, which, with Algenol’s two-step direct-to-ethanol process, is immediately converted to ethanol. In the end, 85 percent of the carbon consumed produces ethanol and the remaining 15 percent is spent algae.

When that process is complete, a simple centrifuge is used for separation. Spent algae goes one way and liquid goes another. Next comes a two-step ethanol purification process, the first of which is patented by Algenol and the second is no different than the method used by the corn-ethanol industry, he adds. The remaining biomass, or spent algae, is turned into green crude in a six-minute process, which can potentially be sent to a refinery to produce mostly gasoline or diesel and some jet fuel. The four fuels can be produced for about $1.30 a gallon each, the company says.

ARTICLE:

A Florida algae-to-ethanol operation is poised to go commercial scale

Author: Holly Jessen
Managing Editor, Ethanol Producer Magazine
701-738-4946 
hjessen@bbiinternational.com

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We need as many ways to produce fuels as possible.

We should be very happy with each new one that happens.

Remember there are already many ways to produce Hydrogen & Ethanol.

CORN STOVER

PART OF PLANT WE DON'T EAT

ETHANOL
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E85 PRICES .COM   - check e85 prices

FLEX-FUEL FINDER - put in your zip code

ROOMBA FOR THE CORNFIELD

YOU GUYS SHOULD START CHECKING OUT ROBOTS FOR THE CORNFIELD

OVER 4,200 THINGS ARE MADE FROM CORN. PARTIAL LIST

ANOTHER LIST OF CORN PRODUCTS.

10% of Corn goes for human consumption.

Spike in price would more likely have to do with rain / drought.

HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP is made from DAH....

-- Side Note
   FRUCTOSE (Corn) is NOT the BAD sugar.

   SUCROSE (Cane Sugar) is the BAD sugar.
       - more complex for body to deal with

      -more stuff from people with agendas

-- I learned this stuff when I was on a semi-health kick back in 1980ish.
      I used to buy FRUCTOSE in little packets from the health food store.
          guess why.

Hey gang.

ETHANOL is made from the NON-GRAIN part of the corn plant that WE DON'T EAT.

ETHANOL would be in competition with CATTLE FEED.

There are over 4,000 products that have corn in them, including PAPER, BEEF, PORK, CHICKEN, and a bunch more stuff.

Human food is just one of the things corn is used for.

ETHANOL can be made from almost any plant.

There are plants that we don't eat (like grasses) that can be used to make ETHANOL too.

Brasil is BIG on ETHANOL, they use a lot of SUGAR CANE to make theirs.

Most people you read or hear talking about ETHANOL ill-effecting our HUMAN food supply, usually will be a PRO-FOSSIL FUEL/ANTI-ETHANOL guy for whatever reason.

Jay Leno was just talking down ETHANOL after years of talking it UP.

WHAT UP?

We have been breathing foul dirty air now for 100 years.

It's better to have something going on as opposed to NOTHING!


GO "CORN STOVER"

New Kansas Ethanol Plant Turning Crop Residue Into Fuel

1. 1. Corn stover consists of the leaves and stalks of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) plants left in a field after harvest and consists of the residue: stalk; the leaf, husk, and cob remaining in the field following the harvest of cereal grain.” Stover makes up about half of the yield of a crop and is similar to straw.

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      Biomass ethanol is ``ethanol made from non-grain plant materials known as biomass.''Biomass ethanol would use the corn stover from the corn crop produced in areas around ethanol plants. Wikipedia

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      Maize stover, together with other lignocellulosic biomass, provides about the potential 1.3 billion tons of raw materials that could produce future fuel in the next 50 years.Wikipedia

      Explore: Lignocellulosic biomass

      Corn stover, Panicum virgatum (switchgrass), Miscanthus grass species, wood chips and the byproducts of lawn and tree maintenance are some of the more popularcellulosic materials for ethanol production. Wikipedia

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   Corn stover consists of the leaves and stalks of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) plants left in a field after harvest and consists of the residue: stalk; the leaf, husk, and cob remaining in the field following the harvest of cereal grain.” Stover makes up about half of the yield of a crop and is similar to straw.

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ALL GAS SHOULD NOW BE E85 OR BETTER

All vehicles sold in the US as gasoline powered vehicles should be able to use any mix of gasoline and ethanol.

NOW AND FOREVER.

In the article below that author talks solely about American CORN crops as the sole source for ETHANOL.

ETHANOL can be made from a wide variety of sources, including CANE SUGAR and many others.

BRASIL uses CANE SUGAR to make their ETHANOL.

AFRICAN countries use the CASSAVA (Tapioca) PLANT to make ETHANOL.

Grapes, Grains, Potatoes, Molasses, Horseradish, Sugar Beets, Fruits, Oats, etc....

Cow waste ... yep!

All kinds of dying, rotting things...

We can buy the ETHANOL on the global marketplace like we do oil.

We can buy the source materials  from the global marketplace and make SOME OF IT ourselves.

The source materials can be from a large variety of plants and algae.

The State of Wisconsin exports ETHANOL to CANADA.
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Saying that vehicles today cannot run on ETHANOL is not correct.
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The ETHANOL part of the mix should NOT BE TAXED or REVERSE TAXED to make it a better deal than GASOLINE.

The more the ETHANOL the cheaper the FUEL.

We should do this until H2 and pure ELECTRIC vehicles are well established.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE THAT TOUCHED ONE OF MY HOT BUTTONS
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The CASSAVA (Tapioca)plant is used in other parts of the world to produce, ETHANOL.

From the left overs they make livestock feed and bricks for houses.

CASSAVA (Tapioca) PLANT
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TAPIOCA is the starch from the root of the CASSAVA plant.

ETHANOL PRODUCER MAGAZINE

ETHANOL CONFERENCE

NATIONAL ETHANOL CONFERENCE .COM

GO NATIONAL ETHANOL CONFERENCE

FUEL@HOME

Hydrogen refuel station unveiled in 2008

YOU CAN FUEL YOUR VEHICLE AT HOME !!!

HYDROGEN

OR

ELECTRICITY

REMEMBER !!!

THERE DOES NOT NEED TO BE AN INFRASTRUCTURE OF HYDROGEN ONLY FUELING FACILITIES.

THERE IS NO REASON AN EXISTING FUELING FACILITY CANNOT ALSO HAVE A HYDROGEN OR ELECTRIC REFUELING AREA AS WELL.

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YES, I AM AWARE MOST PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD ONE OF THESE.

BUT SOME CAN TO GET US STARTED.
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CAR COMPANIES OR CAR RETAILERS COULD INCLUDE A HOME HYDROGEN CHARGING STATION WITH PURCHASE OF THE CAR.
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EXISTING GAS STATIONS COULD HAVE A HYDROGEN REFILL AREA.
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SOME COMPANIES COULD ARRANGE FOR THEIR FLEET VEHICLES TO BE HYDROGEN POWERED.
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THE GOVERNMENT, POST OFFICE FOR ONE.
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EVEN IF "THEY" TRY TO PULL THE "SAFETY" OR "MUST BE REGULATED" STUFF, YOU COULD STILL CREATE A "CO-OP" OR HAVE A PERSON ON YOUR "BLOCK" DESIGNATED AS THE PERSON IN CHARGE OF THE "CO-OP" OR "BLOCK" FILLING STATION.
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THE "FUEL" WILL BE CREATED ON SITE,
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1 CUP OF GASOLINE = 16 STICKS OF DYNAMITE

WHICH IS SAFER?
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HOME FUELING STATION

GO HYDROGEN FUEL AT HOME

HYDROGEN HOUSE PROJECT

HONDA HYDROGEN HOUSE / VEHICLE

DIRTY FUEL

DIRTY FUEL = DIRTY EXHAUST

All the time I lived in Detroit, knowing that a *REAL* Detroit Auto Guy would not mince words when it came to issues critical to the well being of the Detroit Auto Business,  wondered why they NEVER PUBLICLY COMPLAINED about the type of fuel their vehicles were FORCED to use.

If you start with a dirty fuel it is going to be difficult to make the burn clean.

Autos started using ELECTRICITY and ALCOHOL as their fuel. They were moved to gasoline later.
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I know BIG OIL had their men on the board of directors of the big three, they were obviously controlling the situation. The big 3 guys should be ashamed of this.
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Now they are saying how great it is that America can control the fossil fuel situation using DIRTY techniques of getting fossil fuels out of the ground in North America.

1. TAR SANDS
2. OIL SHALE
3. LIQUID COAL

Just when we are trying to get away from dirty fuel, they have found DIRTY WAYS to get the DIRTY FUEL!

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I can not believe that I have never heard ONE DETROIT MOTOR EXEC say this on/in the news.

Maybe they did, but as a Joe Schmoe growing up in Detroit I do not recall it.

They should have been screaming it loudly and continuously!

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It was/is NOT THE CARS/CAR COMPANIES FAULT!

Dirty fuel will burn DIRTY!

HYDROGEN FUELING

In the 21st century we should use 3 fuels.

1. ELECTRICITY
2. HYDROGEN
3. ETHANOL

We can fuel our cars at home with the first two.

1. ELECTRICITY - from the GRID or SOLAR
2. HYDROGEN - Made via ELECTRICITY or NATURAL GAS

ETHANOL is used in the gasoline we buy now. Either E15 or E85.

We should migrate all conventional/hybrid cars to E85 or E100.

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New fueling stations should be designed with variety and flexibility of fuels in mind.

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We need to clean up the mess from the 20th century and move forward to a newer, better 21st century.

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We have unnecessarily been breathing fossil fuel air all our lives.

It is time we stopped doing that.

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HONDA HOME ENERGY STATION

ETHANOL.ORG

AUSTRALIAN PLASMA FUSION

Australia, on Thursday July 10, 2014 will fire up a new nuclear fusion reactor.

Containing the reaction is the key.

In order to simulate the sun, we must make our reaction much hotter, because we cannot match the suns crunch power.

The Fusion reaction is a combination of high heat and a strong magnetic field to contain it.

The sun has a high gravitational field to help it contain the Fusion reaction it has.

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Once pure hydrogen Fusion is accomplished, we will have an unlimited amount of clean (green) power for millions of years to come (beyond forever).

Australian Plasma Fusion Research Facility will search for star power

COLDFUSTION

No. Not Cold Fusion, Cold FusTion.

A New age, Cutting Edge type media production company.

Neat video on 5 hot new technology things.

LINKS

CFN STUDIOS

CNN - WHATS NEXT

GIZMAG

EXTREME TECH

MIT TECH REVIEW

POPULAR SCIENCE

FACE TELLS HOW LONG U HAVE

HONDA HYDROGEN HOME ENERGY

HONDA has got a home energy station.

It takes natural gas from the home gas-line and converts it to hydrogen.

The unit provides power for the home and also HYDROGEN to power the fuel cell car.

They claim 30% lower CO2 emissions than a regular house using natural gas, electricity and a gasoline powered car.


HONDA HYDROGEN HOME ENERGY

NATIONAL FUEL CELL RESEARCH CENTER

2015 HYUNDAI HYDROGEN CAR DELIVERED

The first 2015 Hyundai Hydrogen fuel-cell powered car was delivered in California.

Other companies will follow in the 2015 model year with Hydrogen fuel-cell powered cars.

These cars are zero polluting, except of course for the pollution made in their creation and the creation/delivery of their hydrogen fuel.

The Hydrogen fuel itself is not polluting. Creates water as output.

Why the car companies and their cars always "TOOK THE HEAT" for their pollution I will never know.

It was the "FUEL OF CHOICE" that was ALWAYS THE PROBLEM.
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Why I never heard the heads of this companies loudly and continuously complaining about it I will never know.

There is a conspiracy their I know.
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Some Politicos will always blame the problem on the car itself.

When things are done for political reasons you can throw rational thinking out the window.

LINKS:

TOYOTA:

FUEL CELL VEHICLE@TOYOTA

HYDROGEN@TOYOTA

FUEL CELL@TOYOTA

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY VECHICLES@TOYOTA

HYUNDAI:

2015 TUSCON HYDROGEN FUEL CELL VEHICLE

HYDROGEN@HYUNDAI

FUEL CELL@HYUNDAI

HONDA:

FCX CLARITY HOME ENERGY STATION

FCX-CLARITY SITE

HYDROGEN@HONDA

FUEL CELL@HONDA

OTHER LINKS:

NATIONAL FUEL CELL RESEARCH CENTER

2015 HYUNDAI HYDROGEN CAR DELIVERED

2015 TOYOTA HYDROGEN FUEL-CELL CAR

2015 JAPANESE HYDROGEN FUEL-CELL CARS

2015 HYDROGEN FUEL-CELL CAR

2015 HYDROGEN FUEL-CELL CAR NEWS

PC FAN NEEDS NO JUICE

WILL RESEARCH FURTHER.

Couldn't this at least charge batteries or something?

OTHERS:

RUNS ITSELF AND DRILL PRESS w/o AC

MOTOR RUNS ITSELF

MOTOR GENERATES 150 VOLTS BY ITSELF

BLOOM BOX

SELF RUNNING 40KW GENERATOR

EFFICIENT SOLAR

EFFICIENT WIND TURBINE

FUEL ETHANOL

"FUEL ETHANOL" conference is on at the INDY convention center.

FUEL ETHANOL WORKSHOP
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ETHANOL is a fuel we can go to immediately to get away from gasoline.

Early cars ran on it.

Yes I talk about these three:

      1)  ELECTRICITY

       2) HYDROGEN

       3) ETHANOL
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The new "average" vehicles and basically anything that uses a motor should be electric motor based, powered by stored electricity.

Then, if the unit needs to have an on-board source of electrical generation,  it should be either ETHANOL or HYDROGEN fuel based.
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Seems to me that Indiana would be a natural for the ETHANOL migration.

The state of Indiana could start by using pure 100% ETHANOL in it's own vehicles.

And don't let "THEM" tell you vehicles cannot run on PURE ETHANOL.

It would have complete control over the supply, pumping stations, etc.

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A look at a fuel pump that offers the consumer a choice of fuels:

Cars should be made to run on a variety of fuel mixes to make sure that a shortage of one does not cause serious availability problems.

These cars are already available.

"FLEX-FUEL" vehicles.

Link:

BRAZIL USES ETHANOL

ETHANOL FUEL MIXTURES

FLEXIBLE FUEL VEHICLE

FLEXIBLE FUEL VEHICLES IN THE US

DOE SUPPORTS HYDROGEN

Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (TNSC) announced that it has developed a low-cost,compact packaged-type hydrogen station to supply 70MPa hydrogen gas to fuel cell vehicles

Energy Department Announces $2 Million to Develop Supply Chain, Manufacturing Competitiveness Analysis for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies

 Please read the link below and all sub-links.

DOE spends $2M to help hydrogen happen 

Hydrogen is the end game as far as using a "fuel" in a car.

It is clean in it's use in the car.

The only "GOTCHA" is the energy used and pollution created in it's making, storing and transporting.

But it is much easier to control these things at a central location/plant than making each car have to burn a dirty fuel (gasoline) cleanly.

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Until we can go pure electricity, this is something we need to move to.

Other Links:

Don't let them tell you that hydrogen can be produced only one or two ways.

There are many ways.

If it weren't for greedy BIG BIZ, we would have never been burning oil to begin with.

Early cars used electricity and alcohol.

HYDROGEN ECONOMY