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Old 11-14-2012, 05:55 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
If it sounds too good to be true it is.
Something doesn't add up. Some where between it being so cheap, simple and portable.
My engineer likes to say "all the easy stuff has been done already".
I agree, mostly. It sounds very much pie in the sky. But this bio-based gasoline isn't cheap. In the test they got the cellulose free. They say $1.50 for the conversion per gallon. Refinery costs are about $0.20 per gallon of fossil gasoline. So it is a breakthrough at being only 7.5 times more expensive than fossil gasoline to "refine", but the equivalent cost of cellulose stock is about $50 per barrel of crude oil, which is $86 today.

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