BioGold Fuels Develops Efficient Process to Convert Municipal Solid Waste to Renewable Diesel

[JohnWxy]

http://www.eesi.org/publications/Newsletters/BCO/bco_44/bco_44.html#biogoldfuels

California-based BioGold Fuels Corporation has developed a low cost method of producing renewable diesel from municipal solid waste (MSW). While other biofuel producers spend up to 60% of the sales price on raw materials, BioGold is paid to take the MSW that would otherwise get sent to a landfill. The company then sorts the cellulosic material from the metals, volatile organic compounds, and inorganic waste by means of mechanical screening, magnetic separation, and eddy current separation. The cellulose is converted into diesel through a highly efficient catalytic depolymerization process. “Our processing plants will be one stop shops for all forms of waste to be processed with resulting renewable energy byproducts produced such as bio-diesel from this household garbage,” said Steve Racoosin, BioGold CEO.

and:
http://www.biogoldfuels.com/images/BGF-PressReleaseBDprod-12-17-07.pdf

[Deja Q]

1. For once, I like the idea of the shit hitting the fan.

:D

[JohnWxy]

2. Just be sure to duck!

[snot]

3. so we can continue to emit greenhouse gases indefinitely?

[JohnWxy]

6. NOt to be too crude but as long a you eat you will be emitting a GHG. And as long as people eat

food there will be a plentiful supply of municipal shi..uh .. solid waste.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. "cellulose is converted into diesel through ... catalytic depolymerization process" SAY WHA?

I'm hoping that's just a really, really poor choice of name. "Depolymerization" of cellulose should give the monomer glucose, a sugar, a completely different material from the long-chain saturated organics which are needed for diesel. Perhaps this is legit, but needs to be described as "reforming" rather than "depolymerization". More info needed.

[losthills]

5. Just another way to make fuel from oil:

the poster's all too transparent agenda...