truckers.

[LionsDen]

Here you go, joe

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece

 

[joe-90]

I guess someone is after a research grant eh? Same old story, make ridiculous claims and wait for some mug to come and put money into it. The world never changes.

 

[blondini]

It's not ridiculous at all. If the world is running out of oil, then money needs to be spent on finding alternatives. The achohol in your Bacardi Breezer is made by bugs. 'Bugs' make alchohol, alchohol is bug poop. The methane in your flatulence is made by different bugs...

Alchohol, methane and oil are all biologically derived organic componds of hydrogen and carbon. Alchohol and methane can both be synthesised biologically on a commercial scale so if a microbe can be genetically engineered to produce different hydrocarbons from waste then bring it on.

 

[megawatt]

Completely agree Blondini but you are wasting your time trying to convince JoeThere is no alternative to oil, there never will be, ever and, as its running out fast we may as well all slit our wrists now-90

Can't wait for Joe's response to this one ... Come on Joe at least TRY to be a little more original this time

MW

 

[2scoops0406]

Maybe we'll discover dilithium crystals (but probably won't).

Oh, I don't know kryptonite has been discovered.

 

[megawatt]

Fantasic, something for the human race to kill our first superhero with once he makes an appearance

MW

 

[securespark]

Until you can get something from nothing it's impossible.

Who said something from nothing?

AFAICT, the opinion was something like,

"nothing's impossible, it just hasn't been done yet."

There are many projects being researched into alternative fuels.

To name just one, what about running a diesel engine on recycled vegetable oil? Something that seems to be relatively cheap and easy to get hold of & reprocess.

The future may not be bright for fossil fuels, but it certainly is for the alternatives.

 

[Zampa]

It's not ridiculous at all. If the world is running out of oil, then money needs to be spent on finding alternatives. The achohol in your Bacardi Breezer is made by bugs. 'Bugs' make alchohol, alchohol is bug poop. The methane in your flatulence is made by different bugs...

Alchohol, methane and oil are all biologically derived organic componds of hydrogen and carbon. Alchohol and methane can both be synthesised biologically on a commercial scale so if a microbe can be genetically engineered to produce different hydrocarbons from waste then bring it on.

I always wondered where the term 's**t faced' come from...

 

[Softus]

Oh, I don't know kryptonite has been discovered.

I see the wink, but I don't know what it means.

Towards the end of my research I searched the web using the mineral's chemical formula - sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide - and was amazed to discover that same scientific name, written on a case of rock containing kryptonite stolen by Lex Luthor from a museum in the film Superman Returns.

The new mineral does not contain fluorine (which it does in the film) and is white rather than green but, in all other respects, the chemistry matches that for the rock containing kryptonite."

So, not the same compound, not radioactive, and not the same colour, as a fictional material.

 

[joe-90]

Until you can get something from nothing it's impossible.

Who said something from nothing?

AFAICT, the opinion was something like,

"nothing's impossible, it just hasn't been done yet."

There are many projects being researched into alternative fuels.

To name just one, what about running a diesel engine on recycled vegetable oil? Something that seems to be relatively cheap and easy to get hold of & reprocess.

The future may not be bright for fossil fuels, but it certainly is for the alternatives.

Don't be ridiculous. Where will the World get 87,000,000 barrels of used chip-pan oil from every day?

Try again.

 

[Softus]

Don't be ridiculous. Where will the World get 87,000,000 barrels of used chip-pan oil from every day?

Glasgow?

 

[joe-90]

Don't be ridiculous. Where will the World get 87,000,000 barrels of used chip-pan oil from every day?

Glasgow?

Their stuff is full of battered Mars-bar chocolate. Too costly to reprocess.

 

[Softus]

In that case, Glasgow has a rather different environmental crisis on the horizon...

 

[tim west]

elastic band technology needs an influx of funds and not before time

 

[securespark]

Until you can get something from nothing it's impossible.

Who said something from nothing?

AFAICT, the opinion was something like,

"nothing's impossible, it just hasn't been done yet."

There are many projects being researched into alternative fuels.

To name just one, what about running a diesel engine on recycled vegetable oil? Something that seems to be relatively cheap and easy to get hold of & reprocess.

The future may not be bright for fossil fuels, but it certainly is for the alternatives .

Don't be ridiculous. Where will the World get 87,000,000 barrels of used chip-pan oil from every day?

Try again.

joe, you really are not very far-thinking at all, are you? And unable to read by the looks of things. Just to make it clear, I have highlighted the key characters in red above.

Of course we can't meet the entire fuel needs of the globe via recycled oil. I never said we could.

I said it is just one alternative fuel.