Video: World's first industrial-scale waste-to-biofuels facility

Environmental | 206634 hits | Jun 23 8:02 am | Posted by: DrCaleb

Thanks to its extensive composting and recycling facilities, the city of Edmonton, Canada is already diverting approximately 60 percent of its municipal waste from the landfill. That figure is expected to rise to 90 percent, however, once the city's new W

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by bootlegga
Mon Jun 23, 2014 4:13 pm
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.
by Goober911
Mon Jun 23, 2014 10:47 pm
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.
by DrCaleb
Tue Jun 24, 2014 1:18 pm
"Goober911" said
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.

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