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- From: nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
- Subject: Re: Natural Gas? Combo
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.153705.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec17.001902.13770@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <JMC.92Dec16171509@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <ELM.92Dec16182200@terrorism.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec30.233732.24874@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:37:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.233732.24874@oracle.us.oracle.com>, mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman) writes:
- > In article <ELM.92Dec16182200@terrorism.berkeley.edu> elm@cs.berkeley.edu writes:
- >>In article <JMC.92Dec16171509@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes:
- >>=>In contrast to oil, natural gas is in good supply in the U.S.
- >
- >>As anyone who's eaten burritos or visited their local landfill or
- >>swamp can tell you, methane is very easy to generate. All you need is
- >>bacteria or chemical processes that break down more complex carbon
- >>compounds into methane. You can generate methane from organic waste
- >>-- CH4 is a large component of swamp gas and the smelly stuff from
- >>landfills (though methane is odorless).
- >
- >>In other words, we needn't *ever* run out of it, as long as we can use
- >>generated methane rather than mined methane.
- >
- > Not true. I did a paper on this back in highschool. In order to
- > provide a significant percentage of US energy needs you would need
- > whole farms devoted to nothing but producing biomass for methane
- > productions. Straight solar is simpler, cheaper, and less polluting.
- >
- > Mike
- > --
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- Why can't anybody work on ways to integrate the different energy
- systems together. Why not have a farm, a methane plant in the area
- with some solar energy near by.. Or maybe a way to have solar generator
- be in the same area as farms for methane genration? Or maybe solar fields
- on top of a methane dump? We don't need in many ways new technology,
- we just need to use what we have more efficiently.. Does anyone recycle
- oil?.. It is nice to have new tech, but we must be more efficient..
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- Or a methane dump with wind mills near by or whatever..
- Why must it be straight solar?? Why not use alot of the waste lumber for
- methane (maybe a little wierd?).
-
- Michael Adams alias Ghost Wheel/Morgoth NSMCA@acad3.alaska.edu
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