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I know that this is not happening in Maine, though it may effect Maine a great deal.
Tifton agricultural researcher J.C. Bell [ who brought the world powdered peanut butter ] has made a discovery that could result in the production of 500 to 1,000 barrels of hydrocarbon fuel per day from the initial production facility. The hydrocarbon fuel — commonly known as oil or fossil fuel when drilled — will require no modification to automobiles, oil pipelines or refineries as they exist today and could forever end the United States’ dependence on foreign oil, he said.
... Sources for bio-mass to be converted to hydrocarbon fuel are the forestry industry, pulp plants, agriculture and waste derived from the construction and demolition industry.
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... Bell said the original idea came from observing cows expel gas. “That is natural gas,” Bell said. “Cows release methane gas.” He said the gas is created by bacteria in the cow’s rumen or stomach. “These bacterial organisms are responsible for biological conversion of bio-mass into hydrocarbons,” he said.
It didn't say in the article, but I wonder what the by-products might be? carbon diozide? ash? excessive heat? bio-engineered material that morphs into something dangerous and destructive?
It didn't say in the article, but I wonder what the by-products might be? carbon diozide? ash? excessive heat? bio-engineered material that morphs into something dangerous and destructive?
If the by products were sunshine and daisys someone wouldn't like it.
I think that every one of us here should start calling our politicians non stop and get one of those initial production facilities built here in Maine.
I think that every one of us here should start calling our politicians non stop and get one of those initial production facilities built here in Maine.
I do find myself generally very concerned about genetic engineering.
I also find it interesting each time that our society's accepted school of science is challenged and found to be utterly wrong.
The accepted textbook thought includes that petroleum only comes from thousands of years, with high pressure and heat applied to rotted bio-mass. But now a scientist is looking at bacteria that make petroleum [which does allow for the idea that our petroleum fields were made by a bacteria and not thousands or years of high pressure and heat], and he is developing different bacteria which can produce higher volumes of such petroleum.
I think that every one of us here should start calling our politicians non stop and get one of those initial production facilities built here in Maine.
Except that there is probably some law against it. Or soon will be.....
I also find it interesting each time that our society's accepted school of science is challenged and found to be utterly wrong.
The key word is society. Scientists understand that nothing is carved in stone and our (human beings) understanding of the workings of our world are open to constant revision. That is what separates Science from Faith. Only the common man accepts scientific evidence as absolute proof in the same way that Evangelicals believe in, well you know. Scientists themselves know that a scientific law today could be proven wrong in the future. In fact, a scientific theory must be falsifiable in order to be considered valid. Geologists and other earth scientists commonly believe that oil will not run out, or, it will always be able to replenish itself so long as there is organic material on this planet create it.
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