DC_Vol
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There've been a few projects where biomass is fed into a chemical or biological or plasma process to break it down and generate a syngas (mostly CO and H2) which can then be used to create other chemicals, in particular ethanol. One company bought a few small bits of catalyst from my company for a pilot plant in Georgia that was based on pine chips, where the end product was "bioethylene" with ethanol being an intermediate. Then there was a large engineering effort expended to design a plant in California where the raw material would be waste nut hulls from plants that process almonds and other nuts... that would get zapped in some kind of plasma process to create a syngas that would eventually be converted into ethanol by a fermentation process with a special patented bug. They must have spent a few million on engineering and I provided a couple reactor designs to purify an intermediate stream, and there was a nice potential sales volume involved, but that project seems to have died on the vine.
On another front, Waste Management has an active research effort to take raw landfill gas, isolate the methane out of it, then instead of selling the methane as "renewable natural gas" (like a lot of the LFG facilities are doing) they use a special reactor & catalyst (not one that I m involved in) to convert it into long chain hydrocarbons like kerosene to be sold as jet fuel...
Damage not too bad so far.Well, the GV property looks like the aftermath of a hurricane (or tornado). And they are still coming down. I can hear branches dropping all over the place.
Louder, you sure you don't want to come help burn?
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Ouch.Well, the GV property looks like the aftermath of a hurricane (or tornado). And they are still coming down. I can hear branches dropping all over the place.
Louder, you sure you don't want to come help burn?
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No Tennessee football this weekend ...... let's go climb the North Face ...... hold on tight looks like fun .....
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The old, black women at Piggly Wiggly say, "hold my beer".
Here's a picture I took on one occasion when I was there at the plant in Thomaston about 3 years ago.Thomaston
I finally cooked a tri tip about a month ago: dry rub, reverse sear to med rare. Honestly, I was completely underwhelmed. The flavor was good but it wasn't very tender. The family said they prefer something else. In the inexpensive price range, give me a flat iron all day.So I’d challenge you to check into some sirloin recipes. That cut of beef gets a bad rap. Also check into tri tips.
I think tri tips need some help but they can be flavorful. Check out that Picanha cut I mentioned above.I finally cooked a tri tip about a month ago: dry rub, reverse sear to med rare. Honestly, I was completely underwhelmed. The flavor was good but it wasn't very tender. The family said they prefer something else. In the inexpensive price range, give me a flat iron all day.
Yeah like I just posted below if I’m buying the meat I’ll splurge on prime. And then in order of preference it’s ribeye, filet, and NYS. But the Picanha on the infrared via rotisserie...They serve it at my favorite Brazilian steakhouse in Pittsburgh. It’s good from the spit, but for cooking at home I’d choose many other cuts before sirloin for just about anything.