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[–] 34 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Just for the sake of argument: It's possible to create gasoline from any hydrocarbon feedstock (wood, cow shit, OSB scraps, rice hulls, sugar) for about $12/gallon. At 42 gallons of gas/jet fuel/diesel/kerosene per barrel of oil, that's roughly $504 of finished product per barrel (@ $12/gal).

That means $50 billion would get you about 100 million barrels of synthesized oil. Since the US consumes about 20,000,000 barrels of oil per day we'd be able to synthesize 5/7ths of our oil consumption from waste biomass for that $50 billion per week. Food for thought.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    wouldnt it be pretty expensive to bio-convert plants/animals into fuel. instead of just extracting it from the ground. and not even including extracting it from things like corn.

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