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Discovery-News.com: Discovery's Tracy Staedter and Matt Danzico visit University of Massachusetts Amherst to learn how biomass gas can be transformed into green gasoline.
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17 responses // Scientists Turn Wood into Fuel

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    yeah fucking trees in the ass some more...

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    You can do even more with cannibas... Try that!

    Kuncous
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    This is really incredible turning wood into fuel is very strange but it's creative but i don't know if it's possible

    solidviper
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    Wondering why they are using trees!??!?!?!? Something everyone yells about and is trying to recover on the planet. Where are their heads?

    bedeboop
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    Thought-provoking....this is really fascinating, but begs for a much more thorough investigation.

    What are the problems with this process? Could this solve our fuel pricing woes? Could we create enough fuel from waste crops, like corn husks etc., or would we have to grow trees specifically for this purpose?

    I can also understand why those concerned about climate change wouldn't be in love with this idea...

    frank_runyeon
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    using wood as a fuel? this article is about 100,000 years to late.

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    There goes the price of mulch...

    KD0BQM
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    The segment claimed a $30 per barrel price for the biomass "oil", yet the man in the interview said we wouldn't even know the gas we will someday put in our cars is from biomass. Either they need to clean up this pod or they're already planning to gouge us with the new bio-fuels.

    stancube
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    check this one out as well ..

    Trees are probably a dumb source maybe if they make it from sawdust == but its better to make building materials from the sawdust.

    THey should really try the tobacco or Hemp

    http://current.com/items/89396070_tobacco_source_for_ethanol_feedstock

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    I don't really understand why we would take trees and convert them into gas. Yes, significantly lower CO2 release, but still we need to be focusing on becoming fossil fuel independent. This pod, however, does help get the word out--we are stupid to not look around our homeland and spend a little time using our brains to figure out viable solutions and not our bank accounts. Go green!

    EasyStreet45
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    Go Green, destroy acres of trees instead of buying gasoline! what a great idea!WTF

    inventmagic
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    I think this is a great idea, though... Wouldn't using wood as our fuel source only add to the problem that we're facing with the consumption of trees and our rain forests...?

    CharrsKliathe
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    While I do applaud efforts to create a clean alternative fuel, this is just stupid. Do we suddenly have too many trees?

    donnyin3d
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