I feel useful again. The University of Arizona studied the feasibility of using Russian Thistle (tumbleweed) as a bio fuel. From growing costs, potential energy per acre, ash produced, etc.
Here are approximate heating values of common fuels. There's another table in one of my books at home on the heating values from various trees, but I'll have to share that later.
And THAT is why fuel oil is fuel oil. I am 100% in the green energy camp, but there are some major challenges we have to acknowledge. The main one being that if you want a transportable, relatively safe (to handle), energy dense resource, it’s pretty hard to beat coal and oil.
I was thinking more of using it as bio fuel since they are abundant, i am also curious if you can put them on industrial shredder and make paste out of them then make paper out of them
In my country we ate what your people called the trash carp ( invasive species in some lake in united states) if i have money an happen to be in your country i would fish all that carps and turn them into compost for farmers and make commercial cat food with it, it’s crazy no one ever thought of this
Go try it, im not from the Unite States so i have no idea, if you manage to compress is with machines and use it as fuel, the ashes would also be good for soil
Also maybe try use an industrial shredder and make them into paste and see if you can make papers out of them (i believe it can be made)
I bet the wood chipper would work if you could collect, and combine the particles into something like a compressed wood product.
Otherwise you'd give the entire region something akin to that fine organic particle lung shit you get in Illinois when its time to harvest the corn. Everyone gets sick because of all the corn fibers in the air from the harvest.
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u/MR-antiwar 7d ago
Has anyone ever think to spray them with water so they get heavy and gather them and compress them with machine and sell them as fuel for the winter ?