Living Green

Good morning,

With gasoline prices at record highs recently it is important
to remember that we are in a race against the increasingly
polluting and decreasingly available energy source of fossil
fuels. What we have on our side is technology. Solar energy,
fuel cells, biomass, hybrid technology, fusion reactors
(maybe on the horizon), even a process for turning regular
garbage into light grade oil (which we have discussed in a
recent issue). We are still a long way off from winning this
race, but we could be about to move up in the ranks thanks
to an exciting new process invented by the Japanese for man-
ufacturing gasoline instead of pumping it out of the ground
in the form of oil.

Manufacture gasoline? “Bullshit,” you say. And you would be
right. Please scroll down for more details on this experi-
mental process.

Thanks for reading,

Your Living Green editor

 
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Sakae Shibusawa, an agriculture engineering professor at
the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, said
his team has successfully extracted a half ounce of gaso-
line from every 3.5 ounces of cow dung by applying high
pressure and heat.

The team, helped by staff from the National Institute of
Advanced Industrial Science and Technology near Tokyo,
produced gasoline by adding several unspecified metal
catalysts to the dung inside a container and applying a
30-atmosphere pressure and heat of up to 572 degrees
Fahrenheit. Details of the catalysts could not be dis-
closed.

The team hopes to improve the technology so that it can be
used commercially within five years.

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