Hola Manfred et al!
Manfred Boeller wrote:
Hi Jerry,
I have just read the news about the "green" fuel Branson wants to
use. Maybe he should instead think about the following technology:
http://www.alphakat.de/Welcome/welcome.html
an german "fanpage" about this technology:
http://www.s-line.de/homepages/keppler/diesel.htm
This company is able to transform waste into diesel or kerosine fuel.
According to a few articles in german newspapers and on TV the fuel
is good enough for every diesel engine, but at the moment will not
pass the regulations of the European union because the sulfur content
is a little bit too high.
but maybe you already know about this technology, because the first
commercial installation is in Mexico.
kind regards
Manfred
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=2253282005
11/20/05 - Branson plans to use plant waste to fuel aeroplanes
SIR Richard Branson yesterday announced plans to power his planes on
plant waste as a greener alternative to conventional aircraft fuel. The
Virgin Atlantic chairman said he was considering opening refineries to
produce cellulosic ethanol, which he claimed could replace kerosene.
However, the move surprised environmental campaigners, who said studies
had shown ethanol was unsuitable as aircraft fuel, and no viable
alternatives were on the horizon. Sir Richard said: "We are going to
start building cellulosic ethanol plants to make fuel that is derived
from the waste product of the plant. It is 100 per cent
environmentally-friendly and I believe it's the future of fuel. Sir
Richard said cellulosic ethanol differed from ethanol, which came from
corn or fruit.
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Yes, I'm pretty sure I posted a news article about the KDV500 within the
last few months. For the Alphakat, I could not get the Mexico Plant
page to come up.
For the s-line.de, all in German, my translator reports the top two
articles as;
Diesel - fuel production from garbage
www.rolf-keppler.de
Imprint
http://www.mdr.de/einfach-genial/erfindungen /
Program of the 20.05.2003: "alternatives to the tank"
In Germany, 1,5 million tons of garbage accrue annually. Most of it is
deposited or is burned. And this, although considerable energy reserves
still doze also in the remaining garbage.
Fuel of remaining materials and plastic garbage wins - this sounds like
a dream. With a new reactor technology to the diesel production, this
dream could become reality soon. In order to be able to do the hidden
energy reserves optimally usable in the garbage, the granulated garbages
are heated in the special reactor to 300 to 400 degrees. So that the
complex hydrocarbon connections of the Granulats can be changed to small
part-ier diesel molecules, the addition of a catalyst still is necessary.
The mixture from sound and minerals acts as a strong acidity and
supports the decomposition process. From the mixture in the reactor as
reaction product of gaseous diesels escapes. This is caught and is
condensed. The final product is pure diesel of outstanding quality. From
120 kilograms of Restm|llgranulat 100 liters let diesel produce
approximately itself. With the procedure, the selbedarfs could be
covered up to 15 percent of the nationwide one. Unfortunately,
authorization-legal problems impede the market introduction of the
simply brilliant technology at present.
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The inventor, Christian Koch, writes me:
From 120 kg of remaining plastic, one can generate 100 kg of diesel. In
the garbage is less contained and those of exploiting are accordingly
lower. It is larger quantities for it:
17 million t house garbage per year in Germany
5 million t of house-garbage-similar trade garbages
3 million t increase and one-way packages
2 million t rubber, remaining materials,
1 million t automobile remaining materials and
1 million t Altvle
quantities large to it of fats, agricultural garbages and value
materials, straw, wood u. a.,
In Europe, it is the approximately 5-fold quantity in all of saved.
Since the procedure should not remain narrowly on Germany, considerable
shares could be generated by the next generation this way by fuels.
Does this want the German government or she/it afraid of so many jobs
(approximately 500.000)?
Yours truly, Christian Koch
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One method here is the WindHexe machine which converts anything to a
fine, inert powder, but I don't think it produces energy or fuel
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4723367/
Another is the plant in Missouri which processes turkey parts into oil
products.
http://www.matr.net/article-6837.html
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