Hello Steve, Yea it a bummer to see our think tanks beg, but the bottom line is if they start producing the catalyst for sale, chances are we can buy it, not so different than going to your local chemical supply and buying KOH eh? I think Mr Lin is trying to use his minute in the limelight to express what they have done and give the State a good kicking in the butt to start supporting what they at the university do (Academics vs Sports) and after the Hawkeyes Basketball season why not? I don't agree with -see below... Best Jim
Steve Racz wrote: >Here is the article online (using snipurl!) > >http://snipurl.com/q4st > >If the catalyst is reusable, but only 20 times, what happens then? Can the >catalyst be recycled? > >The details are vague but it seems that this is intentional as it seems Mr. >Lin and his colleagues and especially the University of Iowa are trying to >cash in on their research, not share it. > >Sorry if I sound like a cynic, but the article sounds more like a free >informercial touting the benefits of university and industry collaboration >(read - how to raise $$$ for the University) with the work with renewable >fuels being only the buzzword to bind it together. > >Not that I don't think that there shouldn't be collaboration, it's that this >is blatantly using biodiesel research as a headliner and not much else. > Not much else? Then Why is the Coop going to start Commercially testing the Catalyst? > I'm >actually saddened that with all the blah, blah about being addicted to oil, >that begging is still required by universities for funding of research that >seems so basic and that people like Mr.Lin are forced into the commercial >world when clearly it's not ready for commercialization. > > Right the catalyst is not ready for commercialization but it is ready to test for that purpose. Please don't misunderstand me, I hope it becomes available but until the next 1000 yards of research and testing is complete I am not going to cancel any orders for KOH. >It does state : > >"Grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Energy >and the state's Iowa Values Fund have helped support the ISU researchers' >work." > >but that doesn't stop them from saying this: > >"If the work with West Central shows the catalysts will work on a commercial >scale, Lin may form a company to produce the catalysts. > >But that, as well as continuing research on campus, will take significant >funding, he and others said. > >"If we could get support from the state and from these local companies, there >is no reason why it would not stay here," Lin said. "I see opportunity in >Iowa." > >Steve > >On Sunday 07 May 2006 03:35 pm, JJJN wrote: >My mother in law sent me an article by Anne Fitzgerald writing for the >(Des Moines?) Register. > > The article states that Victor Lin and two fellow University of Iowa >Chemists have created a new catalyst that is reusable (20 times) and can >be filtered. The catalyst will be quite a bit more expensive than what >we are using now but will pay out over time because of the reuse. West >Central cooperative is going to test the catalyst on a commercial scale. > >Anne Fitzgerald can be reached at 515 284 8122 or at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >This sounds very much like the glucose/carbon/sulfur carbon compound. >BUT I do not know if it is or something new. > >Well lets hope this becomes available to us all very soon. > >My best >Jim. > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
