Can we say goodbye to foreign oil, thanks to your neighbors cow? Amazing!

Well, the whole "peak oil" theory doesn't make much sense to begin with. Oil is produced from dinosaurs and vegetation? I don't think so. From what I gathered from this article, this company claims that it's technology can supply 2/3rds of our consumption, and do so by recycling CO2 and carbon that is ALREADY present in the ecosystem. I hate to rain on anyone's parade here, but that ONE sentence just put the lie to the whole CO2 causes global warming argument. Everything we do is recycling carbon and CO2 by converting it from one form into another. We are using what is already there, and through that use we are putting it back into the system. We are not adding anything new, nor are we adding anything more. We live in a closed ecological system, and we always have. That is what makes the premise of this technology so simple. As to the point of the article, if they think they have the capability to replace 2/3rds of our use, then there is no reason to think that they will not eventually produce 100% of our needs with more research. As to our dependence on foreign oil... we could eliminate that simply by using our own reserves... and if this company is correct, then depleting our reserves is not a danger or a possibility. As to gasoline prices... if we want to reduce the price of gasoline, then we need to remove it from commodities trading... as the traders are the ones who determine the pricing. If this company is correct and the technology fulfills it's promise, then there would be no need of foreign oil.

If the eggheads (and I use that term lovingly and in a good way) can make it work than I am all for it. On a related subject, I read an interesting article that basically states that eating beef is doing far worse damage to the environment than all the cars on the road. I can't remember where I read it, but it basically states that all the greenhouse gases being produced by cattle being raised for the slaughter is one of the major culprits of global warming. I really don't want to give steak though...

Well to answer your question I would have to ask a question: How much per gallon would it cost to create this alternative oil. Look we can power our automibles with almost anything, but does not mean that it would be cheaper. Ethonal is a great example. Sure we can grow our fuel, but it is not cheaper. First ethonal is expensive to make. Second it makes everything else more expensive, because everything we eat either has corn in it, or is feed corn. The answer to the price of gas is to get the federal, and state governments to start allowing new oil refineries to be built. We as a nation have not had a new refinery built in over 40 years. The EPA we not allow building prement to be issued for the construction of new ones. As for the Peak Oil theorist I have a statement for your. In the begining of the 1900's the early Peak Oil theorist thought the the oil supply would only last for the next 25 year. Around the 1950 they believe that we would run out by the year 2000. The problem is everytime they make a statment a new oil field is found. The true is no one know how oil is fromed.

That's very interesting. I have been composting for about 25 years now. I have noticed that black goo. The last place I lived in, I had the village compost almost in my back yard. It was a dream come true for me. I tried to visit every day in the summer. It was an endless supply of rich black soil as well as grass clippings, worms and even plants and bulbs. It sounds like a very good plan to me.

Great articles you've linked here! And of course more great reading once on those sites! Thank you! As for this being a viable alternative, yes it is. And it's been proven time and time again in varying ways (as technology to do it changes) since the '70s thanks to the embargos back then. As a matter of fact, back in '79 when I attended Cal Poly, Pomona, there was work in this vein being conducted just to see how viable it was. It wasn't a big program, but the fact that it was even offered speaks volumes. And just across the street to the west, Spadra Tech, as we affectionally called it (Spadra Landfill, Los Angeles County Waste Management), was finally filled and closed. It became the first landfill I saw that pipped the methane gas created in the fill for use and sale on the market. So, yes, yes, yes! It is a viable alternative! As to the effect on gas pricing....too much political involvement to really know. And I don't just mean governmental politics. Oil companies are just that - oil companies. They want to sell oil. If they were into alternative fuels, they would not have crunched the efforts of George Washington Carver and Henry Ford back in the late '20s when the first mass production of alternative fuel was being spearheaded. So I fear that this practice will continue thus making a minute effect on fuel pricing. It's not in their best interest to allow alternative fuels to go big scale. As to our dependence on Chavez and the Saudis - no I don't see that happening for a VERY long time. The business ties that allow their control to exist in the first place are not interested in losing any of their phenomenal profit from conducting business as is. For reference, see the Carlyle Group. So I forecast not much change over the next 50 or so years. Until the greedy are somehow uprooted and control is returned back to supply and demand, I see minimal change in this status. MAYBE, just maybe a state or two will find a way to become independent on its own from foreign oil. But I see Big Brother either capping or eliminating this all together to keep the foreigners happy. Sorry for the gloomy outlook, but I can't see the very rich letting go of their fortune machines.

I think anything can happen, But i dont see this stopping us from buying foriegn oil. because once we do this. we wont have enough to keep up with how much gas is ganna be sold. so inbetween times. we will need to buy from whoever. But im all for it if it does work and if it makes less polutants in the air.