It's been known since 1840 so he won't have a patent.
If he has a novel method of production, i.e. a method that can do it in less steps or whatever, he might be able to patent that.
He can probably patent part of the production process yes if it is innovative enough. There seems to be nothing stopping other firms producing though. They just seem to be the first to market.
That will never happen, the only way it'll ever become mainstream is if it becomes cheaper than fossil fuel, that's the sad reality of the matter.
With estimates of less than 30 years oil reserves (cheaply produced oil at least) left, that may not be that long, cos over the next decade that oil price is gonna shoot up.
As the cheap oil runs out, the oil companies will just find ways to make the hard to access oil cheaper to access, as has always been the case, I can't ever see it changing unless a big player, someone like Elon Musk, or some other entrepreneur who's not in the oil business, can front a green technology which is substantially cheaper, and get the ball rolling. I still think that fusion will be the answer, whenever science allows it.
I'm not so sure. If something like this, a man made biofuel that works on the same principle, can be mass produced then it should be only a matter of time before it can undercut oil.
So they've got a more efficient way of turning waste from crops etc Into fuel? Is that it?
Yeah, I'm thinking it's not worth $30bn.
Can they not use the chaff etc so that food is still being produced and the waste is turned into fuel? Or do you mean they will just use it all for fuel instead?
