Ask HN: Who invests in better plant based fuel?

1 points by carloc 12 years ago | 2 comments

A contact of mine has a company that does plant based fuel. They have a garage guy who is making it "actually work" in terms of workability with existing motors.

Any ideas for people potentially interested in investing much appreciated.

seren 12 years ago |

What is the Energy ROI of the solution ? From my understanding, biofuel EROI is rather poor, and does not make much economic sense in the long term.

carloc 12 years ago | |

I believe you are referring to ethanol based biofuels, which have significantly reduced energy density and require engine modification.

This technology is a plant oil based technology, and requires no engine modification. It's just fuel that comes from plants, and you can put it in your vehicle right now and drive.