Re: The War We Refuse To Win

From: Alan Erskine (alanerskine1_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 06:53:37 GMT

"Christopher M. Jones" <marmiteNOTSPAM@dualboot.net> wrote in message
news:pfevc.71$gh3.54852@news.uswest.net...
> G EddieA95 wrote:
>
> >>Forget that. If petroleum gets too expensive, we should run our cars
> >>on... gasoline. Produced via thermal depolymerization from garbage.
> >>Google on "turkey fuel."
> >
> > You might have a point if there were sufficient biowaste in this country
to
> > make up for the lost oil. There's not.
>
> Ahem: coal gasification. Then switch to hybrid-electric
> natural/coal gas powered cars and we're set for the
> foreseable future.

TDP is a better process for several reasons:
1 the materials already in use are recycled when they become 'waste'
(this includes ag waste, sewage, plastic, paper, rubber [tyres included -
America throws away about 290 million tyres per year], food scraps etc)

2 the minerals can be recycled - if the feedstock is sewage, food scraps,
ag waste or paper, the minerals can go straight back into the ground as
fertilizer for the next crop

3 by using materials already in use (waste/scrap etc), less
air/water/ground pollution results compared to using a fossile fuel.

4 by using these materials over and over again, the reliance on the
Middle East can be broken. Think how much 4.2 billion barrels of _imported_
oil costs the U.S. each year. 

-- 
Alan Erskine
We can get people to the Moon in five years,
not the fifteen GWB proposes.
Give NASA a real challenge
Alanterskine1@bigpond.com

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