I just stumbled onto something quite interesting.
A gentleman named Harry L.
Schoell has just developed a new engine that will run on just about anything that can burn.
This engine is compact, quiet, clean burning and at the time of this writing, seems to be as efficient as our good old internal combustion engine.
From what I understand, this is a high tech steam engine whichdraws it's heat from a cyclonic-type burner.
It can also deliver large amounts of torque at low RPM,seemingly enough to eliminate the need for a transmission when used as an automobile power plant,.
What caught my eye though,is that they claim that it does not need highly a refined fuel to run.
Anything that burns will do.
It seems they even have had it running on coal dust.
This means that it would be a prime candidate for transforming all kinds of bio-wastes into valuable usable energy.
This, I like! We can turn our trash into valuable fuel! What a powerful incentive to clean up our planet! And even if we chose to use fossil fuels, if we can skip the refining step in oil production, we save a bundle at the pump on refining costs.
Plus, the fuel that was not used to run the refinery is available at the pump.
So we win on both counts.
But there is this other thing in the back of my mind.
If we could strip the carbon atoms off the molecules of these different fuels and use the rest to run this type of engine, thecarbon atoms would not be discharged in the air as carbon dioxide.
In other words, we would be in a carbon negative situation, actually taking carbon dioxide out of the air! But what on earth would I do with all this carbon? Actually there is something we can do with it.
In fact, if we would start using it the right way, we could never get enough of it.
And good old Mother Earth would be all the better for it.
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