[Newsbot]

Title: Video: World's first industrial-scale waste-to-biofuels facility
Category: Environmental
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2014-06-23 08:02:28
Canadian

[bootlegga]

I hate to brag, but Edmonton is a world leader in recycling, it's good to see someone doing something to make our country a better place.

[Goober911]

Perhaps we can cut the crap of using corn and other food as biofuels. This one appears to make sense. I do not know all the in and out.

[DrCaleb]

Goober911 Goober911:

Perhaps we can cut the crap of using corn and other food as biofuels. This one appears to make sense. I do not know all the in and out.

It uses the Fischer–Tropsch process ((2n + 1) H2 + n CO → CnH(2n+2) + n H2O) of low oxygen heating of biomass to break it down and form long chain hydrocarbons into a diesel like oil that can be used as fuel.

It would work better with corn husks and stalks, than with corn itself. Yummy sweeeet corn ..

Calgary, of course, prefers to bulldoze perfectly good racetracks to make room for more landfill, where Edmonton filled up our last landfill in 2009 and because of our recycling programs hasn't opened a new landfill to replace it.