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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. 6 Million / 195 Billion.
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They are talking about a 1B gallon/yr plant, not their test plant. When I figure American gas usage at 21 million bpd that brings me to a need for 322 of these plants to replace all gasoline usage, which isn't the goal anyway.
But by all means, since this technology wont replace 100% of our fuel usage, we should ignore it.