Vetroleum

Real Alternatives to Fossil Fuels?

Plant workers weigh out the raw farm waste before it is fed into the reactor, where it will be turned into fertilizer and combustible oil. [image taken from The Sentinel.]Is this a real alternative (click here or on the image to find out more)?

Sustainable Power Corp. "takes such agricultural refuse as cracked soy beans, rice and cotton seed hulls, grain sorghum, milo and jatropha and turns them into bio-crude oil." They claim, that "just one bushel (60 pounds) of organic waste can yield about six gallons of bio-crude" using this process, which they call the "Rivera Method". This translates into replacing "every gallon of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel in the United States using just 12 percent of the waste byproducts in the country." They also claim that this fuel can be even further refined for applications such as petrochemicals applications.  read more »

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