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2007-07-10 23:41:18
Harmor
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+605|6992|San Diego, CA, USA
Only market pressures and government intevention will get us off oil.  If the United States pulls out of Iraq, which seems more and more likely, then Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan and Iran will have a war over Iraq and its spoils.

When this happens the price of oil will sky rocket ($120-$150/barrel), and the price of gasoline will be $5-7/gallon. 

Will this event help us get off of oil and force us to use alternative fuels?
2007-07-10 23:43:52
mcminty
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+879|7165|Sydney, Australia
Dunno, but it's an interesting question.

(I'm looking at studying Renewable Energy Engineering, so the alternative fuels idea isn't so bad... )
2007-07-10 23:47:37
mafropetee
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+18|6587|Altamonte Springs, FL
one word: CORN!
2007-07-10 23:54:13
mcminty
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+879|7165|Sydney, Australia

mafropetee wrote:

one word: CORN!
What? Break down the starch to form glucose. That can then be turned into ethanol (via the action of enzymes) which is the dehydrated (with conc. Sulfuric acid) to make ethylene... now if we can only turn ethylene into octane our petrol issues will be fixed.


That's discounting the energy actually required for the whole operation...
2007-07-10 23:54:22
Harmor
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mafropetee wrote:

one word: CORN!
What's interesting is that more farmers are growing corn instead of other crops...which is actually raising the price of food.  I still don't understand why we have a $0.74/gallon tariff on Biofuel from Brazil.
2007-07-11 00:20:57
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|7118|Canberra, AUS
An interesting idea.

I still don't understand why we have a $0.74/gallon tariff on Biofuel from Brazil.
Now that's just silly.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman

 

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