| Author | Message | ||
     Smartkid (Smartkid) Junior Member Username: Smartkid Post Number: 8 Registered: 6-2005 |
if gasoline is just refined diesel why cant we refine biodiesel into gasoline? or has it been done and covered up by the oil companies? | ||
| Simon Quellen Field (Sfield) Senior Member Username: Sfield Post Number: 827 Registered: 12-2004 |
Gasoline is a mix of hydrocarbons with between 5 and 10 carbons in the chain. It is refined from crude oil, not from diesel oil. Diesel oil has between 14 and 20 carbons in the chain. You can make gasoline from diesel oil by catalytic cracking and re-distillation. There is no cover-up of anything, this information is quite public and freely available. When something doesn't make sense to you, question your assumptions. | ||
| Smartkid (Smartkid) Junior Member Username: Smartkid Post Number: 9 Registered: 6-2005 |
so it would be possible to make biogasoline? ps would it be cheaper than pumping crude oil out of the ground and making it into gas? | ||
| Simon Quellen Field (Sfield) Senior Member Username: Sfield Post Number: 829 Registered: 12-2004 |
If it was cheaper, we wouldn't be refining crude oil. | ||
| Cagey Smooth (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted From: 63.23.21.146 |
Cheaper isn't the issue. Its the matter of control. Who has the money now (the oil companies) and who would have the money in a biogasoline enviornment. | ||
| steven t. (Strspeed) New member Username: Strspeed Post Number: 3 Registered: 4-2006 |
ive herd that you can put cooking wast in to a desal car and i will run | ||
| hitman (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted From: 83.131.189.101 |
I think we should pay someone to kill owners of oil companies and blow up all oil factorys on earth too save the planet. I have heard that they killed some people who worked on clean and cheap energy WHAT GOS AROUND COMES AROUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  | ||
| Simon Quellen Field (Sfield) Senior Member Username: Sfield Post Number: 1752 Registered: 12-2004 |
Wouldn't that create more global warming? How do you travel? Do you use electricity produced from fossil fuels? Do you eat food shipped using fossil fuels? Maybe you are as much a part of the problem as the owners of the companies. By the way, your parents are probably owners of oil companies. Either that, or they are in the wrong retirement funds. | ||
| hitman (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted From: 83.131.215.51 |
One more thing. I think that us army should occupy Brazill they cut rain forest like that it is grass  | ||
| Simon Quellen Field (Sfield) Senior Member Username: Sfield Post Number: 1753 Registered: 12-2004 |
Given how wonderful the US occupation of Iraq has been for the environment there, you might want to reconsider. | ||
| heckuvajob brownie (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted From: 65.57.245.11 |
Not to mention that the problem of global warming is caused much more by the burning of fossil fuels in the norther hemisphere than by any deforestation in the southern hemisphere. | ||
| Michael (Michaelt) Senior Member Username: Michaelt Post Number: 167 Registered: 12-2005 |
The deforestation is often done by burning (as it is 'easier' than by using heavy equipment to do the work). That burning releases tons (and I mean TONS) of CO2 in the atmosphere. Therefore, the deforestation not only produces greenhouse gases, it also reduces the rainforest's abilitity to reduce greenhouse gases. |
