Poopy petroleum...feces fuel...green apple splatters gas...whatever you want to call it, tomorrow's airliners may be running on excrement. A Washington D.C. company is currently designing a plant to be built in California that will turn garbage, tree bark, and yes, even manure into synthetic jet fuel. Solena Group's plan will include collecting the raw waste from Norcal Waste Systems, one of California's largest biomass waste collectors, and converting it to fuel using the Fischer-Tropsch method. This is the same method the US Air Force has already used to make it's synthetic based jet fuel out of coal. The Fischer-Tropsch method can essential coax petroleum out of any carbon-based compound, including scat. Solena Group intends on producing the feces fuel by 2011.
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Friday, May 2, 2008
Dookey...the jet fuel of tomorrow
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Sounds like something that might come from someone who wears applebottom jeans, and possible donning boots with the fur...what do you think about that?
Genius!
Also, loving the prior comment. Haha.
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