They're in silicon valley huh? 2 to 1 odds says Google at least owns a stake of that company. Google invests 1% of bottom line profit into renewable energy. That's a shitton of money. They frequently become investment partners in their renewables, meaning they get a slice should they become profitable.
Google does far more for renewable energy without any "import oil incentive" than any foreign government has accomplished with their silly tax system.
I thought this looked familiar 
It is good to see that they are trying to turn away from corn as the food source. Trying to figure out how to turn our garbage and landfills into oil would be huge.
georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:They're in silicon valley huh? 2 to 1 odds says Google at least owns a stake of that company. Google invests 1% of bottom line profit into renewable energy. That's a shitton of money. They frequently become investment partners in their renewables, meaning they get a slice should they become profitable.
Google does far more for renewable energy without any "import oil incentive" than any foreign government has accomplished with their silly tax system.
Technology in partnership with those in seach of profit...WILL solve our nations energy problem...NOT the government.
Fanatical Wrote:I thought this looked familiar
It is good to see that they are trying to turn away from corn as the food source. Trying to figure out how to turn our garbage and landfills into oil would be huge.
Butanol has more chemical energy than ethanol, and almost the same as unleaded gasoline.
You can make butanol out of wood, grass, cellulose. The SOB is the fermentation because the "bugs" only work within a very narrow range of conditions. You are going to need to engineer the bugs to make it work on a commercial scale. So far, no luck.
These are the partnering firms GTS. Doesn't look like google is involved.
Adolor, AltaVista, Anesta, Antigenics, Aspect Medical, Astral Point, Celera Genomics, ChemGenics Pharmaceuticals, Color Kinetics, Chantry Networks, Cytyc, DataSage, Exact Sciences, IDEXX, PerSeptive Biosystems, Somatogen, Telecorp PCS and TripAdvisor.