Well shit -- a renewable fuel source!

This should take the whole "dealing with bad guys in the middle east" issue of Trump's plate. With no further demand for their oil, the entirety of the Middle East should be the functional equivalent of Sudan in no time at all.*

And how? Well shit, duh.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/6/13544176/feces-fossil-fuel-poop-crude-oil
https://gizmodo.com/ucla-scientists-think-poo-could-power-our-cars-1762060256

My question is: what in the world took us long to come up with this? I mean, we've got drones delivering a desk lamp we ordered earlier that day; we've 3D printers building a house in 24 hours; we've got the female condom, for chrissakes. Turning poop into fuel should have been crossed off the list circa 1971. Anyway, better late than never, I suppose.



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*Next item on the agenda: a wall, duh. http://southpark.cc.com/clips/yner5k/the-great-wall-of-canada

 

PF Changs and Taco Bell should be in line for some healthy advertising and subsidies from the government if this happens.

 

First and second laws of thermodynamics

 

Don't need rebewables now. Coal is back.

 

Only for a few weeks. Santa is about to deposit all of it in Hillary's stocking.

 

Then Trump is going to burn it down - all of it, everywhere. Racism will rule the day.

 

We can manage this but can't seem to get rid of Butch?

 

Butch is a line item veto priority.

 

They've been trying to get fuel from poop at least as long as I have been alive.

 

They've been successful for the last 150,000 or more years. Gonna take a lot to power a single car though. Cuz physics.

 

Why the whole ethanol red herring is sad and a disaster.

 

Corn ethanol, yes. That is just corporate welfare for big agri-business.

There are some viable alternatives that aren't essentialy a 1 to 1 ratio of energy output. Using sugar cane and switchgrass to produce ethanol are far superior to corn. Even kudzunol is better than corn.

So there are viable options for ethanol. They just don't have the money to buy support in Congress like the corn lobby.

One thing that intrigues me is the biodiesel from algae. That's cool.

 

That and ethanol sucks when that shit clogs up my carburetors on my lawn mowers.

 

Beat me to it.

 

Does the same to a lot of guys boats down here. I use rec fuel, no ethanol.

 

I've used ethanol gas in my boat since I bought it in '96. Never had one issue, but I use Sta-bil in my tank before I park it for winter.

 

I also hook a water hose to my intakes, disconnect the fuel line from the motor and let it run until it burns any fuel off and dies on it's own.

 

That's probably a really good idea. Something a couple of guys have told me is they've had to change their fuel lines from the ethanol eating up some older fuel lines.

 

I've never heard of ethanol eating fuel lines. I'm guessing, since they are older fuel lines, that dry-rot is likely the real culprit.

But, yeah. Always burn off excess fuel. Can't gum up injectors or jets (if carbureted) if there's nothing in there to gum.