US -Startup verwandelt Kuhdung in Jetbrennstoff, um erneuerbare Energien mit 1% der konventionellen Kosten umzugestalten.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/cow-manure-into-jet-fuel?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=reddit_share
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California-based startup, Circularity Fuels, hopes to accelerate the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using its compact, electric-powered reactor unit.
The Ouro Reactor converts biogas from dairy farm waste into syngas, a precursor to jet fuel.
On August 19, the company announced that the technology successfully converted biogas from a California Central Valley dairy farm.
This new electric reforming system could create jet fuel right on the farm.
This is nonsense.
I’m sorry but only a fool would believe 1% of cost.
Only shift the problems, that manure was used before for something else, if you use it for jet fuel, someone will need to buy something to compensate.
The pitch appears to be this is a small scale low capital Investment solution, so it can be decentralized and installed at individual farms.
The problem is that this produces synthesis gas, which is a gaseous intermediate that is very expensive and impractical to store. This is not new technology, just nobody has bothered to miniaturize it because there is no point.
I would be impressed if they could miniaturize the Fischer-tropsch process and produce on-spec SAF with minimal waste products. As long as you need a large scale chemical plant for that this is pointless