Don't we have a unlimited supply of gas , produced by a unlimited supply of garbage ?

Question

Assumming it's handled correctly and with the right regulations it could be salf to use .

Answer 1

no, the process to create the fuel requires more energy than the net fuel it would produce.methanol is not the way to go, it is very flammable and very poison and caustic, it attacks metal , the BTU rating of methanol is very low so if your gas engine car gets 25 mpg you will get about 11 mpg with methanol, and frankly do you want to pay $35,000 for a methanol burning car that gets 11 mpg,? and pay $ 4.50 a gallon because that is the cost right now for it without subsidies, now ethanol is a slightly more complex alcohol and the BTU rating is higher than methanol. but still lower than gas, so now your ethanol burning car would get about 17 mpg instead of 25 mpg like a gas engine. i see a better future for ethanol than methanol, but it still is more expensive to produce the gas, it is heavily subsidized ie uncle SAM, IE me and you and everyone else is paying for it. if it was a primary source of fuel right now we would go broke on the tax for it. i really believe in bio diesel , it is cleaner burning than the alcohol fuels and non poison and classified as non flammable and the BTU rating is higher than gas so now your 25 mpg gas car will get 40 mpg with a bio diesel equipped car, and that what its all about high efficiency and a fair price! and 80% less c02. also the farmers will have a new cash crop to produce the bio diesel. and no tree killing, and dangerous poisons polluting the water table.

Answer 2

nothing is unlimited, but some things are renewable, such as corn, while others are not renewable, such as petroleum. It sure seems like a no brainer, but I guess no one's claiming the world (of humankind) has brains anyway. It's kind of like we are all on a plane that is crashing and we're all just passively looking down hoping the pilot will right the plane, but what no one realizes is that there is no pilot there. what does that mean? someone needs to run up there and grab hold of the controls! Or more acurately, we should all be up there storming the cockpit and righting the "situation" actively, rather than waiting for the "authority" to fix things! sorry for the analogy....

Answer 3

Both are not unlimited. We can only produce as much garbage we can economically afford,as we do not buy stuff just to throw it out. We consume more energy then that garbage can create.

Answer 4

yes we can rely on our garbage as a supply of gas-not if oil companies have a say in it, they make big money -money they will lose if we start to rely on alternative fuels. We need to wake up and realize that this is a bigger issue than anything else-or we will all be riding our bikes to work

Answer 5

A city on the Mississippi, in MO, I believe runs its power plant off of garbage. As I recall, reading, they ended up gettin garbage from other towns to fire the plant. I read this some yrs back, probably in Nat. Geographic.

Answer 6

We are a monster, slow to turn and move! There are many alternative fuels available to us now, but or economy is so slow to move and accept. Government regulation favors the status quo, and those making the money on the status quo don't want things to change!

It is time “we the people” take back our lives and make things happen! Atlas Shrugged!

Answer 7

Yes but as there is no money to be made companies won't invest in production,when we eventually run out of natural supplies any company that has the technology to extract and store that gas will be quids in

Answer 8

I think someone has fed you an unlimited supply of garbage.

Answer 9

actually, we have an unlimited supply of gas produced by an unlimited supply of fecal rhetoric spewing from the mouths of congress.

Answer 10

It is heavily subsidized by the government right now they feel by 2015 it should be more affordable. Right now ethanol is more expensive than gas and the mileage is worse. They're are making progress though.