09-09-2008, 03:26 PM
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Re: The future of fuel will arrive next year
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Originally Posted by PhishPhood
Promising innovation but it's still a tiny drop....
Look at these numbers...
The US uses 20 million barrels per day of oil.... 20 mmbpd Source: EIA
One barrel of oil produces about 20 gal of gasoline and 7 gal of diesel.
Thus we use 400,000,000 gal of gasoline every day plus 140,000,000 gal of diesel every day.
Over the course of 1 year we use 144,000,000,000 gal + 50,500,000,000 = 195 Billion gallons.
If this technology, 6000 gal / acre / yr, were extended to 1000 acres...it would produce 6,000,000 gal of bio ethanol per year.
Thus this plant at 1000 acres would replace ..... ready...... less than ONE minute of our daily usage.
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Did you read the article? This one facility is going to produce one billion gallons of ethanol per year by 2012. |
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