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Imported oil and the threat to our security

Here is something you can do with the contents of ashtrays (or if you are really bloody minded, the people who empty them in the parking lot): http://www.btgworld.com/technologies/pyrolysis.html
 
It's all about the dollar $igns the CEO's see and can afford to do virtually anything they so choose to get them. Then they go and buy million dollar houses and cars and treat everybody who isn't as rich as them like pieces of shit. But that's beside the point, if Iran really wanted to do some damage to the global economy they would attack Alberta's oil supplies. It's an easy target for one, and for two, makes the West nearly completely dependent on imported oil: something that's oh so easy to interecept with their new weapons.
 
The solution is go back in time and change everything. Simple. Or start from scratch here and now. There is no turning back from this though. There is no fixing this problem. It has to be erradicated and replaced. Unfortunatley our world is so dependent on the oil and the money that it will cripple our way of life when it falls apart. What do you do when it all falls apart? That is the real question.
 
A novel meathod of converting coal to usable liquid fuel. Perhaps a variation of this process can be used to convert the bitumen from the tar sands into a more useful fuel as well?

http://www.technologyreview.com/BizTech/wtr_16713,296,p1.html

Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Clean Diesel from Coal

A novel catalytic method could let you fill up your tank with coal-derived diesel, cutting U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

By Kevin Bullis

As the cost of oil soars and worries over the U.S. dependence on foreign petroleum escalate, coal is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative as a feedstock to make a range of fuels. Now chemists have invented a new catalytic process that could increase the yield of a clean form of diesel made from coal.

The method, described in the current issue of the journal Science, uses a pair of catalysts to improve the yield of diesel fuel from Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) synthesis, a nearly century-old chemical technique for reacting carbon monoxide and hydrogen to make hydrocarbons. The mixture of gases is produced by heating coal. Although Germany used the process during World War II to convert coal to fuel for its military vehicles, F-T synthesis has generally been too expensive to compete with oil.

Part of the problem with the F-T process is that it produces a mixture of hydrocarbons -- many of which are not useful as fuel. But in the recent research, Alan Goldman, professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University, and Maurice Brookhart, professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, use catalysts to convert these undesirable hydrocarbons into diesel. The catalysts work by rearranging the carbon atoms, transforming six-carbon atom hydrocarbons, for example, into two- and ten-carbon atom hydrocarbons. The ten-carbon version can power diesel engines. The first catalyst removes hydrogen atoms, which allows the second catalyst to rearrange the carbon atoms. Then the first catalyst restores the hydrogen, to form fuel.

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