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- arielh85, on 08/28/2008, -0/+29just a note...this isn't an airline, it's a company that develops renewable fuels
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+6They should use hemp fuel!!! They'd get soooo high!!! *rolls eyes*
- redcolumbine, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4Now if only they can include the "blue ice!"
- rhysmd, on 08/28/2008, -1/+5It's nice to hear that it will be cheap per gallon, but that isn't really the issue.
How much energy is in each gallon is the real question, and the combination of landfill waste and sorghum will undoubtedly not have as many KJ or BTU (depending on your preference) per gallon as good old fashioned Jet Fuel A.
Let me know when they can tell me what it costs per KJ and I'll be happy to evaluate. - icdapoakr, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4I hope more companies start using garbage as fuel. I don't want a Wall-E future.
- MaxMWood, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3Hmm good idea but do we actually produce enough waste for fuel? I never thought i'd say this, but maybe we need to produce more rubbish to make this possible..
- luckydeck, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3sure it'll save up to $58.40 a barrel - but think of what it'll cost us in landfill waste and algae!! ..... oh
- DigSomeMore, on 08/28/2008, -2/+5oops, my mistake...this is a great article though, good read.
- Spuy767, on 08/28/2008, -1/+4Note: They don't need to race for some groundbreaking development, they just need to work on something that has the energy density of petroleum based jet fuels. You can pour just about anything into a turbine and have it run. Me and a friend once poured moonshine into his model jet and watched it fly like a champ.
- shagmin, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2Where I'm at they had one airline go out of business, but at the same time there's a new jet engine plant opening up. Hopefully this is all for the best in the long run and it can be a more viable industry in the future. Railroad is one of those things where despite all the transportation inventions that surpass it in many ways is still the most efficient as far as energy goes.
- LostinService, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2FTA: "Swift’s fuel has been the only successful challenger to outperform petroleum as a high-octane aviation fuel."
I'm assuming they mean that the potential power output per gallon is greater but you're right to keep a skeptical mind about it. As a pilot I don't want to be carrying the same 53 gallons as I currently do in a C172 but only have half the range. - colonels1020, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2Choose oil. Go brown. :)
- Garciat, on 08/28/2008, -1/+2No more sushi for us...
- rhysmd, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1If we tax the oil based on the money we are shipping... You just want to tax oil usage further?
The additional cost of everything that takes petrochemicals will damage the economy significantly, unless the tax is ridiculously small as a percentage.
Not to mention the ability to hide another tax among the cost of our consumer goods is one more place the government can take advantage of people. - DrJG, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1Use of waste was the only good part of this idea.
- schnikies79, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1No, because that means giving the government more revenue. They can't manage what they have and shouldn't get more.
Oh yea, I doubt you would like the resulting inflation. - loggedout, on 08/28/2008, -1/+2synthetic fuel? what an idea from WWII ...oh wait...
- joeanon, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1America need to invest in algae biofuel NOW before another nation takes the pioneering role.
- SanTe, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1Bob Cringely wrote a decent article about them back in June:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_200 ...
and a followup article a couple of weeks later:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_200 ... - lornali, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1That's the way
- flailking, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1Boy...takeoff is going to smell like *****!!!
- borez, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1Broccoli
- bonshepherd, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Oh boy! i love scientific research.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -2/+2Coal! Coal!
- sodade, on 08/28/2008, -1/+1Why don't we add a tax to oil based on the money we have been dumping into the Middle East?
Then we can talk about the savings of alternatives in a free market. - kigpanama, on 08/29/2008, -0/+0its about time someone did something about a new energy supply
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -3/+0=o
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