Biorefinery turns biomass into hydrogen and fertilizer

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Here's a new technology that creates hydrogen fuel out of waste or other biomass:

...you can put almost any type of waste or biomass in the Noah biorefinery, and it produces gas that is mostly hydrogen, without pollution of any kind and with very little ash, according to its inventor, Mike Rogers of El Dorado.

That hydrogen gas can be used in place of propane or natural gas or to power a generator that produces electricity. And the ash makes good fertilizer, Rogers said.

The Noah, granted a patent just before Thanksgiving, is marketed by Rogers’ firm, Power Reclamation Inc.

What little ash is left is an almost perfect 3-3-5 to 7 fertilizer, suitable for vegetables, pasture, and other crops...

I like the story behind the technology and the name.

During the Noah’s eight years of development, chemists and others kept telling Rogers the concept would not work and could not work...

...Rogers wife, Ann, named the portable biorefinery after the biblical Noah, who was ridiculed during the years he was building Noah’s Ark.

“We just had naysayers and doubters, and we were sitting on the back porch one day and I said, ‘We’re just going to have to call it Noah because they’re going to stop laughing, too,’” she said.

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Comments

[Flexornaut]

Sounds similar to an article I found elsewhere...
Recent efforts into Hydrogen Fuel research have uncovered an improved method for creating hydrogen gas - the process utilizes microbial fuel cells to produce carbon-neutral hydrogen with *nearly 300% more energy than current procedures.

[Alt-Fuel-Fan]

Biodiesel is currently produced from a number of products, including soy bean oil, cotton seed oil, and yellow grease, among other things. Turning animal fat into Biodiesel is not new, it's just not (yet) being done to any great extent. The low, uneven quality of chicken fat (a factor when being considered as a biofuel stock,) is normally shipped to a few vendors in other states to be used in soaps, as filler in pet foods and a few other consumer products. Chicken Fat Biodiesel

[Scepter Marketing Technologies]

You can run your car on water! (Actually Hydrogen) I just recently converted my '94 chevy silverado to run on water. It cost me less than $100 for the parts I needed and it went from getting 14mpg to 33mpg. That's double the mileage for less than it cost me to fill up. There is definitely something to this water for gas technology, It works!
http://free-renewable-energy.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-run-your-car-on-water-learn.html

[pyrolytic]

The hydorgen biorefinery is out again, but as Verde Reformation. Web site verdereformation.com. This one sounds like an improvment and has additional technology shown as part of the model offering.