If you have too much corn, you try to find a way to use it for fuel. If you have lots of cows, you do the same thing.
Cow manure, waste silage, cheese whey are waste products to some, but viable energy sources to researchers in New York State who are helping area dairy farmers meet their own energy needs by turning these waste products into “biogas” (and this is NOT the kind of gas expelled by cows).
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According to a major geologist, if you think the world is on the verge of running out of oil or other mineral resources, you’ve been taken in by one of the biggrest myths about geology.
Eric Cheney says, “The most common question I get is, ‘When are we going to run out of oil?’ The correct response is, ‘Never.’ It might be a heck of a lot more expensive than it is now, but there will always be some oil available at a price, perhaps $10 to $100 a gallon.”
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UPDATE – There’s more news on using our surplus corn as fuel (in the form of ethanol). As our readers know, corn is not the best plant to use to convert into ethanol?other types of plants produce a more efficient fuel. Honda thinks it has found a way to convert plants waste, such as leaves and stalks, into fuel we can burn in our gas tanks.
In USA Today, Chris Woodyard writes that Honda is using a microorganism discovered in Japan that can convert vegetation into ethanol much more efficiently than the bacteria that is used to create ethanol now.
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UPDATE – People who remember being in UFOs often describe them as being powered by magnets. Now an Irish high-tech company is using the same method to defy the standard laws of physics and create free energy, but they can’t get other scientists to look at their invention.
Physicists at Sterorn in Dublin are inviting other physicists from around the world to view their new invention in operation, because until the scientific community is willing to take an objective look at it, the researchers at Sterorn won?t be able to do anything with it?despite the world’s desperate need for an alternative power source. Like fusion energy, which is now finally being developed, free energy has long been thought to be an impossibility.
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