Fuel from Waste

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-diesel-simple-energy-efficient-high-quality-fuels.html

For the last ten years, biodiesel in the form of fatty acid methyl ester has been promoted as a replacement for fossil-fuel-based diesel fuel. It was soon found that this has its problems because the required plants, such as rape, occupy cropland that can then no longer be used to grow food. A second-generation biodiesel is now supposed to be gained from plant waste.

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It's almost as though people have recognized that our current energy paradigm relies on a specific kind of resource that might run out, and so people are trying to find clever replacements.

Shocking!

Still, if this follows through, very neat. Maybe in the future, America will be a food AND fuel exporter. Wouldn't that be awesome?

icerose said:

Anything that helps use waste and make the planet a better place at the same time has my vote.

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Plus, we'll get to avoid any megadeaths from an energy collapse.