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Dead Wood To Fuel Cars?
By Mr Ethanol | February 22, 2008
ReporterHerald:
The dead wood left behind from bark beetles could replace some of the gasoline that fuels our cars — at a lower cost — said John Scahill, an engineer with the U.S. Department of Energy.
“This gasoline and diesel is indistinguishable from what you put in your gas tank,”
Scahill said at a biomass conference Thursday at Colorado State University.
“It would be a premium or superior product from what we currently get from petroleum.”
And it would cost about $2 per gallon, which is cheaper than petroleum, Scahill said.
The conference focused on different ways of converting biomass, specifically the dead wood found in Colorado forests, into a renewable, clean energy source, thereby reducing fire danger and the further spread of bark beetles.
Methods include wood chip and wood pellet heating, as well as turning the wood product into liquid fuel as described by Scahill.
“We can essentially melt trees, and what we end up producing is called bio-oils,” Scahill said.
Scientists then remove oxygen from the oil to turn it into a petroleum replacement, he said. Read more.
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