Is it possible to fuel the world from grass clippings?
Thanks to you buds for suggesting a video like this to me! I was not able to get to a mass spectrometer to analyze the pond scum better, but hopefully I can get to one soon! The microbes make methane because they have no oxygen. They can only get oxygen by getting rid of hydrogen. (in water, sugar, etc.)
Links:
Thumbnail link: http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/con...
There are 34,000 golf courses in the world, 30 hectares of grass on each:
http://www.scottishgolfhistory.org/ne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_co...
Amount of cereals production:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/...
Human Urbanization:
http://www.prb.org/Publications/Lesso...
Number of homes in the world:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Total energy from sun and total energy we’re using:
http://plasticphotovoltaics.org/lc/lc...
Woodpower:
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/0...
Ethanol:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol...
http://large.stanford.edu/courses/201...
Return on energy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_...
5000 gigatons of methane in ocean:
http://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-1/...
What is that oily sheen on the marsh?
http://askanaturalist.com/what-is-thi...
Methane/Octane enthalpies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane
Entropy of life:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy...