Better Than Ethanol? BTL in plug-in hybrid diesel vehicles

Google Tech Talks
September 20, 2006

Reed M. Benet
Biofuels Focused Ph.D. Student University of California Davis Institute of Transportation Studies
Consultant to The Energy Foundation, Chevron, Nissan
10 Years Founding, Funding, Consulting to or Leading Venture Capital Backed Life Sciences, High-Tech or Energy-Tech Co's
Europe Finance & Operations
5 Years USMC Infantry Officer

Harvard MBA (Entrepreneurship)
Princeton B.A. (Politics)

ABSTRACT
Speaker proposes that plug-in hybrid diesel vehicles (versus gasoline variants) combined with biomass-to-liquid gasification and fischer-tropsch diesel fuels (versus ethanol, cellulosic or otherwise) is the best holistic and medium- to long-term...

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[mjclarthur]

@GemandJoe biofuels doesnt Necessarily mean using foodstuffs to make fuel, it can hopefully be cellulosic ethanol which would convert, elaves,grass clippings, tree trimmings, mulch, switchgrass etc, any form of cellulose

[aviix]

BTL Hybrids is the ultimate green solution ...

[GemandJoe]

Biofuels have had, and will continue to have, an awful effect on the world's poorest people and their ability to feed themselves. This should be taken into account. There are many types of renewable energy, biofuels is NOT the way to go...

[Lennartflyff]

Duurtlang

[drmodestoesq]

Exactly, garbage is 40 percent paper (cellulose). Obviously, it is widely available. It also costs a huge amount to landfill. Further, no one wants a garbage dump next to them. It also creates huge numbers of jobs. Many of the jobs are joe-jobs that take a low skill and training level (picking up cellulose garbage e.g. wheat straw, shredded tree branches, ditch weed, old construction waste) that replace blue collar jobs. Also, if the plants are relatively small, they can be decentralized.

[dsuupr]

Obviously this is out of date. Cellulosic Ethanol using "trash" has proven to have a higher return of energy over diesel and gasoline along with producing lower emissions for the cars that use it.

[TypeR891]

your wrong. Torque increases 0-60.... Horsepower is just measures you carrying weight one foot every second. Torque is the actual rotating force.

[aeroscope]

Torque doesn't increase the 0-60 its horse power

[thiago497150]

Sugar cane ethanol is cheaper ( cost about US$1 in brazil with a lot of taxes) , can increase the power comparated with same gasoline engine(increase the life of engine too), and overall system is lighter and cheaper than any other system (pure electric, diesel, hybrid...).

But i believe in electric car for future

[PlugInPrius]

I'm buying the Apter Hybrid and it gets 125 miles per gallon even if I never plug it in. now why can't toyota do that. why can't gm do that. why can't any of the other dozens of automakers do that? stupid situation and I'm buying the Aptera Hybrid, Period.