Alternative Energy - Vegetable Based Biofuels

[melisssawat]

biofuel is made from waste as well. it's not only food crops it can be all the shit you though in your garbage like corn husks, egg shells, orange peels, grease from burgers and bacon ect. DONT BE SO SCARED, this is our lives we are talking about. We need to make a change for our children and our future not only with greener living, but with education and health care and societies values. Look at who we idolize. People have been putting "MONEY" before life for to long.

[davedavedaveannoy1]

I say we extract methane, hydrogen, and other gases found in the sewer, garbage dumps, and compost piles. Then we can use the oily waste found in fast food places. And then we take dead people, throw them in a giant series of vats, inject bacteria and extract all the flammable fumes and use the left over liquid decayed "slush" and either use it for fertilization or for increasingly efficient engine and mechanical parts lubrication. We would create more jobs and get something from the deceased!

[81lonesoul]

@davedavedaveannoy1--- the garbage "dumps" already do that, yet we PAY for them to take our trash... as for the dead people thing. what do you THINK cemeteries ARE? can you say FUTURE OIL RESERVES? supposedly oil fields are where dead dinosaurs got burried from a volcano blast, or a metior hit, or whatever the story is... i thought about cemeteries a long time ago, as MAN made future oil reserves, oh, but wait you have to PAY them to put you there... funny how we get SCREWED left and right.

[81lonesoul]

@davedavedaveannoy1 -- also, think about human waste... :) yep, we PAY wish EACH flush of the toilet, and the sewer treatment plants REAP the benefits of OUR waste. might sound gross, but if you're cool with anaerobically composting pig, chicken,horse, donkey, or cow crap, what's any different about OURS? we can produce methane from our OWN waste, and use what's left for fertilizer!

[davedavedaveannoy1]

@81lonesoul We need more idealists like you in society, not these pussy ethical people. As long as it does not violate human and constitutional rights or harms anyone in any way we should be exploiting it for energy. It is however the families decision if their recently deceased relative is used in that way.

[81lonesoul]

@davedavedaveannoy1  lol, wow... looks like i found someone LIKE MINDED!!! yeah, when you said about the whole recycling people thing, i immediately thought of the movie WATER WORLD. it's kinda disgusting, and people probably WON'T ever actually DO IT, unless some disaster like that actually happens, and people have NO CHOICE. till then though, maybe people will look at road killed animals in a different light. :)

[davedavedaveannoy1]

@81lonesoul Lol, yeah, nice to know there is someone out there with a sense of efficiency and creativity, everyone seems to believe wind power will save us.

[81lonesoul]

@davedavedaveannoy1 huh... well, i don't know where you're from, but wind.... well, it may work, but no so great. Solar wouldn't even be that good. i'm interested in distilling ethanol, and recently gained interest in anaerobic digestion. which is basically composting in an air free environment. in stead of letting your compost sit, and emit methane gas into the atmosphere, your capture it, and can use it to cook with, or even to run a vehicle! :) then what's left, you use as compost!

[davedavedaveannoy1]

@81lonesoul I mean wind, its a great Idea, but we shouldn't invest everything in it, there is massive potential in biomass resources like we have discussed and many areas of the United States have exploitable hotspots for hydrothermal energy. But your right, we need to distill more ethanol, but not from sources like corn (which just increase food prices) we need to target algae and sugercane to make bio based energy practical. But anaerobic digestion is an ingenious concept and everyone should

[usedcardboardboxes]

Vegetable based bio-diesel is a great idea,especially if we start to compost our trash.

[jeremyclix]

hmm All I can say is there are better alternatives like sun power and geothermal.

The cultivation and harvesting of this kind of energy DOES emit polution and internferes in the ecosystem by the use of chemicals etc.

I think it's not the best solution.

But generally not as bad as fossil fuel.

[CleanWaterActionPA]

Wow, great video!

[Coraxuss]

Ethanal vegetable-based fuel is not a bad idea, just the method for harvesting it, and where to get it, is. It's well worth more the effort to fund R&D to find efficient ways to extract fuel from cellulose materials, you know the, parts of the plant that aren't edible and that people throw away such as corn husk.

[Addison5000]

It has animal fat in it which is not up to date with popular trends. I also think it is unethical to make fuel out of animals. We are already breeding them in small cages to devour them, making their lives worthless and tragic.

[artigianale]

Why burn everytime everything? the potential of geothermal production of energy can be many times the anual production of energy of the entire world. and this energy can be used for all purpose!

[beardedswine]

why don't we grow more weed? you get a whole lot more ethanol from it then corn, something like 4 times more at less cost to the environment. it also grows quicker and is the second largest oxygen giving plant on the planet. this is just one of many of the amazing things we could be using it for to help humanity. you can also make 4 times more paper from hemp then an acre of trees. at 4-7 times less pollution in processing it. you can do the math on how much quicker it grows then trees too

[Yourdeadmeat69]

Alternate energy using byproduct used food oils, makes a great alternate energy source, and makes highways smell like french fries.

And the host of this series is so hot, I don't know why you'd need any alternate fuels at all.

Wow.