On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 11:07:28AM +0100, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Some more background on the commercialization of butanol (and assorted > > isomers) here [1] > > > > I may begin to like bio-fuels if there is a promise to cultivate 2 acres of > food crops for every acre of biofuel.
I hear you can grow crops in the shadow of PV panels. Which can do >20% without breaking a sweat. Water electrolysis would work, Sabatier would work (using CO2 scrubbers), but in principle you can find mild synthesis conditions for alcohols or higher hydrocarbons. Methanol would seem a good sweet spot here. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
