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Re: Petrol prices
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Wed, 11 August 2004 00:18
 
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| Billy-Mason PI wrote on Wed, 11 August 2004 07:57 |
On the ABC, there's a science show called Catalyst, and a couple of months back they were talking about the fuel crisis.
Anyway, this old dude in Como, devised a alternative fuel. Bascially it's concentrated fish faeces that he collects from the Murray River. Once it's processed into a liquid at his property, a few additives are added for engine protection and there is only a 4% power loss, but fuel economy increases by approx 11%.
I don't know about the smell from the tail pipe, but it was interesting viewing nonetheless... 
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There are a lot of different naturally occuring oils/hyrdocarbon chains that can possibly be "cracked" to provide short-chain alkanes for use as Petrol, however the cost of processing these fuels on a large scale is generally much higher than petrol from crude oil. The real driver to use alterative fuels is going to be either legislative (unlikely) or commercial, whereby the cost of petrol from crude oil rises higher than the cost of petrol from renewable resources.
Of course, by the time that happens we could all be driving cars with "Mr Fusion" reactors as power sources 
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