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Seattle-based company hopes to be producing 400 million gallons of alternative fuel a year by the end of 2008.

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Interesting
by Remo_Williams February 21, 2007 1:45 PM PST
The US consumes appx 150 million barrels of oil per year. Even a generous rounding would allow the US to replace 70 million barrels using biodiesel; the rounding is to signify the loss of energy from biodiesel to crude oil.

-R
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cool
by RompStar_420 February 21, 2007 2:01 PM PST
This sounds great even tho I never owned a Diesel anything car, sounds good, the more we can distance our self from the Middle east and their oil, the better. The only reason oil has so much value is because of the demand from USA and Europe.

If the US figures out their energy import problems with replacements like this and or other new technolgoies, trust me, Oil won't be worth as much, hopefully this will happen and all those puppets that jump up and down and say, down with Americal Imperialist, will find out the hard way, where they will stand financially after we have 0 need for their products.

Hopefully soon, this will happen. Also I think that the US needs to invest more into public transportation, more commuter trains, more light rail, in Europe you pretty much don't even need a car, you can get anywhere you want using public transportation.
You're a little off
by whargoul February 21, 2007 2:02 PM PST
Actually, the US consumes over 20,030,000 barrels of oil per day; which comes out to 7,310,950,000 barrels of oil per year.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_con-energy-oil-consumption

That 10,000,000 barrels per year they're going to produce isn't going to be anything more than a fart in a hurricane as far as our oil needs go.
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Encouraging story
by sudokuscore February 21, 2007 2:16 PM PST
It was only yesterday I had a lengthy discussion regarding raising capital from US for an Indian company planning to set up a bio diesel plant there. They are planning to use Jatropha curcas seeds to be grown in waste land.
US being the trend setter , this is indeed good news.
They are projecting a very decent ROI. If any one knows of any profit making bio diesel refuneries please share info.
My mail id vin@sudokuscore.com
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Encouraging story
by sudokuscore February 21, 2007 2:16 PM PST
It was only yesterday I had a lengthy discussion regarding raising capital from US for an Indian company planning to set up a bio diesel plant there. They are planning to use Jatropha curcas seeds to be grown in waste land.
US being the trend setter , this is indeed good news.
They are projecting a very decent ROI. If any one knows of any profit making bio diesel refuneries please share info.
My mail id vin AT sudokuscore.com
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Encouraging story
by sudokuscore February 21, 2007 2:17 PM PST
It was only yesterday I had a lengthy discussion regarding raising capital from US for an Indian company planning to set up a bio diesel plant there. They are planning to use Jatropha curcas seeds to be grown in waste land.
US being the trend setter , this is indeed good news.
They are projecting a very decent ROI. If any one knows of any profit making bio diesel refineries please share info.
vin AT sudokuscore.com
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this is crap, but..
by dondarko February 21, 2007 2:25 PM PST
on the other hand check this company out that I just found about today http://steorn.com/orbo/ . Apparently they make electricity through using magnetism to spin around electron then stopping it and harnessing its momentum energy.
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the reason...
by dondarko February 21, 2007 2:28 PM PST
i said this is crap is b/c they will only be making 10 million barrels of oil which is not even a drop in the bucket.
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Hello? Bozo
by J. Blow February 21, 2007 4:04 PM PST
There is no such thing as "free" energy. That would cause a re-write of all physics laws.

This companies claims have never been validated or proven in any way and you should not allow to be sucked into their stupid claims.

http://www.randi.org/jr/2006-09/092206bad.html#i6
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