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barrett on August 22, 2008 - 11:58pm

1.3 billion tons at around 13.6 MMbtu/ton for cellulosic biomass is about 17.6 quads for the dry feedstock. Optimistically you can get maybe 10 quads of liquids from that. We use about 40 quads liquids, around 27 for transportation. Arguably better to consume it in Robert Rapier's Personal Biomass Reactors to displace natural gas and heating oil for which we use about 11 quads of the two resources in residential and commercial applications.

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tomc on August 23, 2008 - 6:52am

How about we move about 1.6 kg of uranium around the country to get the same amount of energy available ...

You have a bike ? That should (literally) do.

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