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Cars to run on fuel from household waste in two years



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CARS run on fuel made from household waste could be on the streets within two years, it was announced yesterday.
INEOS, the world's third largest chemical company, said it aimed to produce commercial quantities of bioethanol fuel from biodegradable municipal waste by 2011.

Peter Williams, chief executive officer of INEOS Bio, the part of the firm which makes bioethanol fuel, said: "Our technology will make a major contribution to reducing greenhouse gases and the world's need for fossil fuels.

"This is a very robust and flexible process, and we have everything we need now to take it to a commercial level.

"This is very attractive from the perspective of the food versus fuel debate, as it takes fuel production away from corn."

The process produces ethanol by mixing a biological catalyst with carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which are produced by burning the biodegradable waste.



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  • Last Updated: 20 July 2008 9:33 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Guga II,

Rockall 21/07/2008 02:58:18
Don't hold your breath - except when passing their factory.
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The Former Mr. Angry,

Perth 21/07/2008 09:12:01
It may sound like a load of rubbish but if it makes inroads into the mountain of trash and turns it into fuel why not? I hate eco-bams as much as anyone - they're on some super Marxist green agenda.
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Neil,

Glasgow 21/07/2008 11:01:01
If they can do it withoutv subsidy good luck to them. It takes little thought to realise the total amount of fuel that could be made from the total of our household waste will not matter that much.

The staement "Our technology will make a major contribution to reducing greenhouse gases" is clearly untrue since if anything rubbish turned into fuel & burned will create more CO2 than if it is buried in landfill. This article has the feel of a rewritten press release.
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Spicey,

Glasgow 21/07/2008 13:39:46
"CARS run on fuel made from household waste could be on the streets within two years"

Fat lot of good that will do though, as the article then says that commercial quantities of biofuel to run the cars wont be ready until 2011, ie 3 years away.....
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Alternative (High-Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 21/07/2008 16:29:09
#6:

At least someone is doing something. Hopefully, the eco-nazis won't find some or other stupid reason why this cannot be progressed.
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The Former Mr. Angry,

Perth 21/07/2008 16:57:29
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Yup. The Green chaps will no doubt find that this first-generation rubbish biofuel is depriving the huddled masses of their propensity to pick the landfills clean or something. You couldn't make it up but these guys do all the time. However maybe the eco-loonie risk assessment has already been done.
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Slioch,

Scottish Highlands 21/07/2008 19:17:33
#5 Neil

The statement "Our technology will make a major contribution to reducing greenhouse gases", appears correct for two reasons.

Firstly, any fuel produced will replace that which would otherwise have been derived from a fossil fuel source. It is the burning of fossil fuels that increases the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Secondly, organic household waste sent to landfill tends in those anaerobic conditions to convert the carbon in the waste to methane rather than carbon dioxide. Methane is a far more (c. 23 more) potent greenhouse gas than CO2 and though it only lasts for about ten years in the atmosphere, it is then oxidised to CO2.

Removing organic waste from landfill is one of the simplest ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. If we can make fuel at the same time that is a bonus.

 

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