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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Eliminating Diesel Waste

By Randy Roedl

The United States government is constantly working hand in hand with interested citizens in coming up with capital ideas to decimate waste. There are many waste-related problems such as landfills and the pollution they cause on ground water; nuclear waste that need to be transported away (as far away as possible so as not to cause damage); and even industrial wastes that always pollute the waters and kill marine life.

These problems, when looked at on a different angle, could be used to solve the concerns themselves. There are now studies and researches (that are being supported by the U.S. government which aim to put a stop to waste disposal problems plus add the benefit of having good sources of clean fuel!)-all it takes is a little innovation from pioneering minds.

One of the departments that consume much fuel reserve is the Department of Defense. Five billion gallons of fuel possess been depleted up by the United.States. Military forces in 2007 alone. Of course, to be able to use these cylinders upon cylinders of fuels, they possess to be moved even to hot spots like Iraq or Afghanistan; and fuel is something that terrorists badly need. With this issue on hand, the Department of Defense decided to do something about it and the result was such a breakthrough!

Velocys and various Energy are two companies that possess worked on a system that might produce the required jet and diesel fuel by the military forces. Their solution was very simple-all that they had to do was convert all the waste recycled products at the base camps into fuel. This trash might be mere scraps of paper, food or even wood.

The process begins with the collection of the needed waste products and then placing them in gasifiers (produced by Diversified Energy). The gasifier transforms any material that has carbon into a mixture of hydrogen and CO2 (also known as syngas). Velocys' fuel synthesizer then converts this gas into fuel (in hydrocarbon liquid form).

The invention of this waste fuel solves two United.States. Military forces troubles: the minor problem on how to dispose waste from the bases and the major problem on transporting fuel. In the long run, this might even halt fuel 'hijacks' by terrorists. The synthesizer and the gasifier are small enough and so far, the two companies possess shown promising demonstrations that these two equipments would be able to deliver what they are promising.

Although this is barely off of the planning room, armed forces garbage conversion might spell gasoline independence for the department in the days to come. Considering this innovation initiated by figuring out military troubles, the nation, in general might actually benefit from it. The source of gasoline comes cheap (in fact, it is far from being costly as it comes from waste materials) and the end-product is highly useful. If all types of wastes that are being produced by tons each year are to be converted into sources of energy, America would be able to compete in the production of fuels; and when this happens, it might be economically healthy for the country, too. - 21396

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