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Roger on February 25, 2007 - 6:19am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Wait a minute here, Robert you actually say that that the gross of waste products could replace our current liquid fossil fuel usage? Could you confirm this with some solid numbers?

I cannot believe that there is a daily stream of 3180000000 liters of waste fats in the US that could be transformed to biodiesel...

Please explain.

Roger From The Netherlands

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karlnick on February 25, 2007 - 7:36am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Is it possible that they included the fat man behind the steering wheel.

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Robert Rapier on February 25, 2007 - 9:59am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Wait a minute here, Robert you actually say that that the gross of waste products could replace our current liquid fossil fuel usage?

Yes, but that’s all waste streams, not just waste oil. We have tremendous amounts of paper, forestry, and farm wastes that could potentially be turned into fuel. As I said, it is the net that is the problem.

Could you confirm this with some solid numbers?

No, because I am on a very transient Internet connection at the moment. I rarely stay connected for more than 5 minutes, and pages can take 5 minutes to load. Therefore, anything requiring research is problematic at the moment.

I cannot believe that there is a daily stream of 3180000000 liters of waste fats in the US that could be transformed to biodiesel...

Not all waste biomass is waste fat.

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