Bob

"Researchers hoping to ease America's oil addiction are turning sawdust and wood chips into bio-oil, a thick black liquid that could become a green substitute for many petroleum products.

Bio-oil can be made from almost any organic material, including agricultural and forest waste like corn stalks and scraps of bark. Converting the raw biomass into bio-oil yields a product that is easy to transport and can be processed into higher-value fuels and chemicals...."

http://www.wired.com/news/technology...l?tw=rss.index

Hardly new technology, but it is starting to get some coverage...so what do you guys think? Reckon it'll pick up over here or not?

And speaking of things picking up, up the road, the petrol place that would sell diesel in the summer months only, well they have got the diesel in now, a bit early...so who'd have though...not cheap though..and you do have to use the minging tramp pump out back...but hey, it's somin'

Sarah

Its all futile IMO. Growing cow corn for ethanol isn't very good as its not that clean-burning, corporate owned farms growing monocultures results in the land and soil being f--ked up. Then theres the whole 'peak oil' debate. If you google peak oil you'll come to read and reaslise that ultimately.....
We're all doomed.

fatbrit

Wife went over to an alternative energy startup company 4 months ago. The federal grants they are getting are plenty to cover her ginormous salary. It's the place to be at the moment...

anotherlimey

Note to self: Open alternative energy company.

They don't need to see results do they?

Bob

Aye, well there's plenty of waste wood products though ain't there...well around here there's tonnes of the shite, wood mills, paper mills etc...

Bob

Thydney

If you want that sort of job become a General in Eyerack

Bob

wouldn't be that desperate

Thydney

You'd think so after three years

Bob

Well I might become soon enough