Published: 6 Jan 13 14:01 CET | Print version
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German scientists have developed a new technology to transform garden waste into fuel overnight, Der Spiegel magazine reported over the weekend. The resulting brown pellets can be used to fire conventional power stations.
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Forgive me if I'm wrong it is along time since I studied but increasing the pressure would result in oil and gas would it not ?.
I have given more questions than answers sorry.
So many green energy fanatics tend to forget that many of their so-called "solutions" are neither solutions, nor green.
How is SunCoal's pellets different from biochar, something that people have known how to produce for 2,000 years (and charcoal, not true coal)? Is it more compact? Is it more efficiently produced?
A diesel engine hooked up to a 100 ton hydraulic press.
you can pelletise leaves and use them to run a heater or wood gasifier that generates electricity or drives a diesel motor, but the potential plus here would be if the trade-off between the energy taken to create the artifical coal results in a higher energy density to weight ratio that results in a marginal benefit for transportation costs, i.e. the energy used to create the artifical coal is less then the additional energy that would have been required to transport the pellets... not sure I am convinced unless the coal generator is itself portable and can be taken into the forest...