Super long-term kernel support
Super long-term kernel support
Posted Mar 29, 2018 18:39 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)In reply to: Super long-term kernel support by rahvin
Parent article: Super long-term kernel support
I gather it's also easy (whether it's fuel efficient or not ...) to manufacture oil. Fill a pressure vessel with plant material, heat, and when it's cooled you have a substance pretty similar to crude oil.
And converting one form of oil to another (especially making petrol and diesel) is pretty easy using zeolyte catalysts, so I think making liquid hydrocarbon fuels from bio-matter isn't a chemistry problem.
It's an economic problem - can we do it efficiently enough to make it worthwhile?
Cheers,
Wol
