Have we heard of fungal diesel yet? - Fuel Economy, Hypermiling, EcoModding News and Forum

Daox · 11-06-2008, 10:12 AM

Apparently they have found a fungus that converts plant waste into an even cleaner and more efficient burning diesel.

Fungal diesel could revolutionise fuel production - earth - 04 November 2008 - New Scientist Environment

Tango Charlie · 11-06-2008, 10:29 AM

Whoah, that's pretty wild. Probably not something you could do in the garage, though.

Where the heck is Patagonia?

trebuchet03 · 11-06-2008, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Tango Charlie

Where the heck is Patagonia?

Southern South America

This is pretty awesome

Especially if there's little to no design changes necessary

RH77 · 11-06-2008, 12:20 PM

I heard an Interview with the Montana Professor on NPR the other day. It sounds promising if they can grow enough of it -- and get it going quickly.

Matt Herring · 11-06-2008, 12:55 PM

I heard about this a few times! If you have Sirius Satellite Radio and listen to Bubba the Love Sponge's show on channel 101 he has a friend that is trying to bring this process to the United States. He has plans to build a processing center in Arizona...of course all of this is very preliminary.

Originally I heard that the waste is converted to liquid and then vapor but this may be new information on this process. Sounds interesting.

almightybmw · 11-06-2008, 04:42 PM

I'm proud to say this guy is a genius: he works here, in Bozeman.

Matt Herring · 11-06-2008, 04:46 PM

Montana...even better! And anyone that can produce fuel from an alternate energy source is brilliant. Hopefully he can build his own processing site or hook on with someone with alot of cash to get it done. Either way...progress is progress!