Dr. No

BlueFire Ethanol Fuels: Converting Garbage Into Profits

So we intend to hydrolyse the trash with concentrated acid ??? How is that going to end up with what is left over ? Spoiled acid ? Non-hydrolysable stuff ? Where are we dumping that ?

The reason we do not have a better alternative to oil and ethanol from corn is that virtually all of the suggested process do not work economically and they do not work large scale.

Of course once the oil price goes higher, the economics change, we will then also accumulate experience what may work and what not. But let's be fair, the oil price was half of today a year ago and half that the year earlier, we do have a (expectable) dramatic change in prices over a short (in engineering terms) period of time.

Odd is that chemical engineers are such experts in public policy and do not point to the technical issues in the process at hand, which is what they should be experts in... The suggestion to have so many different blends is lunatic as the logistics will not work. You will not place that many different containers in a gas station. Europe tried it since 20 years and is going back due to the cost associated. Ain't working.