Re: [Biofuel] remove from list
Click on the second link, the one that starts with mailto:; (from the mailbox you are receiving the emails from sustainablelorgbiofuel) it will create a message for you List-Unsubscribe: http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/sustainablelorgbiofuel, mailto:sustainablelorgbiofuel-requ...@lists.sustainablelists.org?subject=unsubscribe or send an email (from the mailbox you are receiving the email from sustainablelorgbiofuel) to sustainablelorgbiofuel-requ...@lists.sustainablelists.org and write as subject unsubscribe (without the quote). It should do the trick ! Olivier On Nov 29, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Jesse Lingenfelter jesselingenfel...@hotmail.com wrote: hello, I do not know my password for the mailing list, but I would like to unsubscribe thanks Sent from Windows Mail From: Bruno M. Sent: Friday, November 28, 2014 6:06 PM To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org, acreage2...@yahoo.ca Mark, like close to all listservers, subscribing unsubscribing is self-service. And like in most cases the info of how to do it, is in the footer or the header. Here its in the header: List-Unsubscribe: http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/sustainablelorgbiofuel, mailto:sustainablelorgbiofuel-requ...@lists.sustainablelists.org?subject=unsubscribe Grts Bruno M. ~~ Mark McFadden schreef op 28/11/2014 22:17: Hello, this is a request to remove me from the list.Thank you,\Mark ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel === ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel
Re: [Biofuel] An exercise for list members
Renewable energy overtakes nuclear as Scotland's top power source http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/27/renewable-energy-overtakes-nuclear-as-scotlands-top-power-source?utm_source=facebookutm_medium=postutm_term=scotland,renewablesutm_campaign=Climate__surl__=IgH5e__ots__=1417212324954__step__=1 Sent from my iPhone ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel
Re: [Biofuel] A wind turbine for your home
Electricity is like any other commodities. You buy and sell KWh. So his company has to buy every month or year on average from Windpower source (or produced itself) according to what its customers want to pay for. If a windturbine produces less then what they have sold to customers they need to install a second one or buy from an other windpower producer. The KWh itself does not has a sticker saying windpower but imagine that their customer aggregated power makes for 50% of the energy the company sell (either produced themself of acquired elsewhere) and they want that 50% to be windpower then the company will have no choice to buy or produce 50% of its power from windpower. Now imagine that the other 50% want nuclear then the company can't buy/produce from coal at all (or from other sources as a matter of fact). You don't need separate power line. It is all a question of from where you buy/produce and the quantity. So yes, the company can guaranty that the power sold to Hoagy is from windpower. Olivier From: kelly coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:42:58 + To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] A wind turbine for your home if you are happy with that situation fine but it seems to me all you are doing is subsidizing there wind turbine program and helping pay for the installation and maintenance of there turbines i dont see how they can say that the electricity you are getting is wind powered because once it hits the grid its electricity whether it be from coal, nuclear, biomass, wind, hydro,, whatever seems to be tough for them to claim that you are receiving said electricity,, i think you are just helping them pay for it,,, but i suppose anything that helps promote alternative energy such as wind power cant be a bad thingif folks are willing to help subsidize the cost of installations, on a biodiesel note i read this post regularly but contribute rarely,, i started producing with much help from mr addisons excellent website,, jfg and cut my teeth in bio from info harvested there,, i am now producing and distributing to other local contractors as my self approx3000 gallons of b100 per week and am very happy with our switch to biofuel i figure i have replaced over the last couple of years over 100 thousand gallons of petroleum diesel with bio derived from wco colleceted in new england and nyc just wanted to share that with you all cheers kelly Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:34:31 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] A wind turbine for your home Hello folks, I took an alternative route for consuming wind power electricity this month since it was just offered in my community. My power company, Xcel Energy, added me to there wind resource list to become a 100% consumer of wind turbine electricity for about $4 dollars U.S. more per month. I live in a apartment now so this is wonderful news for me! They said the average home owner would pay roughly $10 more per month for 100% wind generated electricity. -Hoagy ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ _ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don¹t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_ Storage_062009 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090625/ed20ab1f/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Saudi scholar warns alcohol in bio fuel is a sin
Thursday, 19 February 2009 Sheikh advises ethanol bio fuel use prohibited by Islam Saudi scholar warns alcohol in bio fuel is a sin DUBAI (AlArabiya.net) Muslims may be sinning if they fill their cars with bio fuel like that from this Sao Paulo ethanol pump (Courtesy of Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz) A prominent Saudi scholar warned youths studying abroad of using ethanol or other fuel that contains alcohol in their cars since they could be committing a sin, local press reported Thursday. Saudi and Muslim youth studying abroad would violate the prohibition if they used bio fuel, he said, since it ³is basically made up of alcohol.² Majimi stressed that his statement should not be considered an official fatwa, but is rather a personal opinion. He noted that this is an important issue that needs to be studied by the relevant religious bodies. Bio fuel is becoming increasingly popular in the West for its relatively low price and as an environmentally-friendly source of energy.. In the past few years, millions of organic-fuel cars have been manufactured in Europe, the United States, Brazil, China, and India. Bio fuel is derived from recently dead biological material. Bio fuel is manufactured by growing plants that are high in sugar, like sugar cane or sugar beet, or high in starch, like maize. The sugar or starch is then converted into cellular energy by using yeast fermentation to produce ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, which is also found in alcoholic beverages. (Translated from Arabic by Sonia Farid) All rights reserved for Alarabiya.net © 2007-2008 ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Why the Planet is Sick
Not that I put a lot of though into it but why would the industries sell it at 10$ ? They want to sell they don't want to reduce demand. More the opposite. Someone else should make that it is sold at 10$. Maybe an on the way to be extinct tax. Then no one would be interested to buy a boat and go tuna fishing... Maybe after all it is what you're saying when writing, but I no longer believe the average person is capable of self government. They need a government to govern. Olivier Nepal From: Guag Meister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:43:59 -0700 (PDT) To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Why the Planet is Sick Hi All ; What a fascinating review, presented in a much more convincing way than I ever could. And sorry to say, I have come to the same conclusion after grappling with the question from every angle over several years. Here's an example. I can buy a can of tuna fish for 30 Thai baht, less than $1. Deep sea tuna are being fished to extinction and yet I can buy a can for under $1. The price should be $10 or higher to reduce demand, right? But the problem is, if I artificially set the price at $10, what is the first thing that will happen? Answer: a whole bunch of people will buy boats and go tuna fishing because it will be so profitable. Capitalism causes this problem, and capitalism cannot provide a solution. My view (after many years of somber contemplation) (and probably not shared by everyone) is that the average person, unfortunately, is not capable of making decisions that effect the whole society. This includes finite resource allocation and includes election of government leaders. Sorry, but I no longer beleive the average person is capable of self government. The fact that GWB got elected twice should be proof enough lol. After the American revolution when the society was young and God fearing, capitalism worked amazingly well. But American society is haemorrhaging, spiraling down, and therefore not stable. The posted articlce is right on the money (sorry Americans spreading democracy). Capitalisn doesn't work in the long run ( 500 years). Short run, emphatically YES it works. BR Peter G. Thailand ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Danish Island Becomes Energy Self-Sufficient - The Island in the Wind PART 8OF8
Go to the site and request the other pages ! (at the bottom of the article) http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_kolbert/?current Page=1 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_kolbert/?current Page=2 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_kolbert/?current Page=3 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_kolbert/?current Page=4 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_kolbert/?current Page=5 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_kolbert/?current Page=6 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_kolbert/?current Page=7 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_kolbert/?current Page=8 Or request to view as a single page ! http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_kolbert/?current Page=all Olivier From: josephinewee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:46:45 +0800 To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Danish Island Becomes Energy Self-Sufficient - The Island in the Wind PART 8OF8 Can we access the whole article? Only page 8 is available? Thank you. Regards Josephine - Original Message - From: MH [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Biofuel sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 3:24 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Danish Island Becomes Energy Self-Sufficient - The Island in the Wind PART 8OF8 PART 8OF8 --- A Reporter at Large The Island in the Wind by Elizabeth Kolbert (page 8) http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_kolbert/?currentP age=8 Twenty years ago, NASA¹s chief climate scientist, James Hansen, testified on Capitol Hill about the dangers of global warming. Just a few days ago, Hansen returned to the Hill to testify again. ³Now, as then, frank assessment of scientific data yields conclusions that are shocking to the body politic,² he said. ³Now, as then, I can assert that these conclusions have a certainty exceeding ninety-nine per cent. The difference is that now we have used up all slack in the schedule.² Hansen went on to warn that there would be no practical way to prevent ³disastrous² climate change unless the next President and Congress act quickly to curb emissions. Few parts of the U.S. may be as windy as Samsø, or as well organized as Switzerland, but just about everywhere there are possibilities for generating energy more inventively and using it more intelligently. Realizing these possibilities will require a great deal of effort. We may well decide not to make this effort. Such a choice to put off change, however, will merely drive us toward it. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.5.12/1594 - Release Date: 8/5/2008 9:49 PM ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20080806/2bd6cfd0/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Growdiesel International Summit, New Delhi, India
September 17-19, 2008 Growdiesel International Summit, New Delhi, India Growdiesel Climate Care Council is pleased to invite you to the inaugural International Summit on Algae Biofuels to be held on 17th, 18th 19th September 2008 at New Delhi, India. The Summit is focused on next generation of Biofuels using Algae as main feedstock. The main objective of the Summit is to provide an improved up-to-date understanding of the next generation feedstocks and technologies in Algae Biofuel Industry. The Summit will be an excellent platform to gain and disseminate information regarding recent research, development and commercialization activities in the field of Algae, mass production systems, Photobioreactor technologies and other important areas of Algae Biofuel Industry. In view of Biofuels emerging as a trillion dollar futuristic industry, the summit shall bring out many value added opportunities for the entrepreneurs, investors, venture/PE companies, Renewable fuel Sector, co-organisers, speakers, industry experts and sponsors. The technical financial topics of the summit will cover the entire Algae Biofuel Industry. http://www.algaebiofuelsummit.com/ You are also requested to help us by forwarding this communication to your friends and colleagues who are active in this field. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20080429/0dd7b01b/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] WVO supplies on the wane?
Hi Keith, Regarding your last paragraph, I can confirm that here there is no or very little WVO. Either they just keep using it and top it off every day or the cooks are taking it home. I visited an instant noodle factory and there's no WVO, they keep adding unless it really becomes really rancid. I think it is not only a question of choice, it is also a question of education. They just don't know always that it is not good for health. As long as it tastes ok they keep using it. An other example; they prefer white rise. Brown rise does not looks clean to them. Although here there is an other more practical reason. You need to cook brown rise longer thus more energy. But if you ask an urban person, they think the rise as not been cleaned. They don't know that there's good stuff for human as well in the bran. They use it as animal feeding. Olivier From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 00:29:07 +0900 To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: [Biofuel] WVO supplies on the wane? The price of cooking oil went up. The supply of WVO from the restaurant we usually get it from went right down, from more than enough to much less than enough (though we also have other sources, so no big problem). The FFA content went up, doubling from a titration of 0.8 - 1.2 ml 0.1% NaOH solution to 2.0 - 2.35 ml. Also not a problem. So it seems they keep costs stable by using the oil longer. That's probably a common practice. This is quite a good restaurant (you can tell from the previously low titration levels), not very good restaurants will probably keep it going even longer. Again, probably not a big problem for most, all indications are that there's still really a lot of WVO that goes unaccounted for in most of the industrialised countries, though for a couple of years now backyard brewers have been telling of increasing competition for local supplies. In poorer countries though, from what I've seen elsewhere and from what I can gather, there might not be much to spare for diesel motors - people just keep using their oil until it's all used up. Not very good for them, but they might not have much choice. Best Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Pollution Is Called a Byproduct of a Clean ¹ Fuel
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/us/11biofuel.html?pagewanted=all March 11, 2008 Pollution Is Called a Byproduct of a Clean¹ Fuel By BRENDA GOODMAN MOUNDVILLE, Ala. After residents of the Riverbend Farms subdivision noticed that an oily, fetid substance had begun fouling the Black Warrior River, which runs through their backyards, Mark Storey, a retired petroleum plant worker, hopped into his boat to follow it upstream to its source. It turned out to be an old chemical factory that had been converted into Alabama¹s first biodiesel plant, a refinery that intended to turn soybean oil into earth-friendly fuel. ³I¹m all for the plant,² Mr. Storey said. ³But I was really amazed that a plant like that would produce anything that could get into the river without taking the necessary precautions.² But the oily sheen on the water returned again and again, and a laboratory analysis of a sample taken in March 2007 revealed that the ribbon of oil and grease being released by the plant it resembled Italian salad dressing was 450 times higher than permit levels typically allow, and that it had drifted at least two miles downstream. The spills, at the Alabama Biodiesel Corporation plant outside this city about 17 miles from Tuscaloosa, are similar to others that have come from biofuel plants in the Midwest. The discharges, which can be hazardous to birds and fish, have many people scratching their heads over the seeming incongruity of pollution from an industry that sells products with the promise of blue skies and clear streams. ³Ironic, isn¹t it?² said Barbara Lynch, who supervises environmental compliance inspectors for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. ³This is big business. There¹s a lot of money involved.² Iowa leads the nation in biofuel production, with 42 ethanol and biodiesel refineries in production and 18 more plants under construction, according to the Renewable Fuels Association. In the summer of 2006, a Cargill biodiesel plant in Iowa Falls improperly disposed of 135,000 gallons of liquid oil and grease, which ran into a stream killing hundreds of fish. According to the National Biodiesel Board, a trade group, biodiesel is nontoxic, biodegradable and suitable for sensitive environments, but scientists say that position understates its potential environmental impact. ³They¹re really considered nontoxic, as you would expect,² said Bruce P. Hollebone, a researcher with Environment Canada in Ottawa and one of the world¹s leading experts on the environmental impact of vegetable oil and glycerin spills. ³You can eat the stuff, after all,² Mr. Hollebone said. ³But as with most organic materials, oil and glycerin deplete the oxygen content of water very quickly, and that will suffocate fish and other organisms. And for birds, a vegetable oil spill is just as deadly as a crude oil spill.² Other states have also felt the impact. Leanne Tippett Mosby, a deputy division director of environmental quality for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, said she was warned a year ago by colleagues in other states that biodiesel producers were dumping glycerin, the main byproduct of biodiesel production, contaminated with methanol, another waste product that is classified as hazardous. Glycerin, an alcohol that is normally nontoxic, can be sold for secondary uses, but it must be cleaned first, a process that is expensive and complicated. Expanded production of biodiesel has flooded the market with excess glycerin, making it less cost-effective to clean and sell. Ms. Tippett Mosby did not have to wait long to see the problem. In October, an anonymous caller reported that a tanker truck was dumping milky white goop into Belle Fountain Ditch, one of the many man-made channels that drain Missouri¹s Bootheel region. That substance turned out to be glycerin from a biodiesel plant. In January, a grand jury indicted a Missouri businessman in the discharge, which killed at least 25,000 fish and wiped out the population of fat pocketbook mussels, an endangered species. Back in Alabama, Nelson Brooke of Black Warrior Riverkeeper, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring the Black Warrior River and its tributaries, received a report in September 2006 of a fish kill that stretched 20 miles downstream from Moundville. Even though Mr. Brooke said he found oil in the water around the dead fish, the state Department of Environmental Management determined that natural, seasonal changes in oxygen levels in the water could have been the culprit. The agency did not charge Alabama Biodiesel. In August, Black Warrior Riverkeeper, in a complaint filed in Federal District Court, documented at least 24 occasions when oil was spotted in the water near the plant. Richard Campo, vice president of Alabama Biodiesel, did not respond to requests for an interview, but Clay A. Tindal, a Tuscaloosa lawyer representing the refinery, called the suit¹s claims ³sheer speculation, conjecture, and
[Biofuel] BD from animal fat/tallow
I looked at the archive as much as I could with my slow connection and couldn't find the info I am looking for. I know that BD made from animal fat is solid at a higher temperature then BD made from veg. oil at least sunflower. I did a few 1 liter test batches of both sunflower oil bought from the shop and tallow home made from buffalo fat. I haven't measured yet the exact temperature at which Buffalo-BD turns liquid but at 15 oC it is solid. I wonder if any of you you have experience in animal fat BD and can share their experience. I guess I will need to mix it with diesel (I haven't tried yet). At what ratio diesel-BD (approximately as I guess it depends on the BD) it is liquid at say 12-15 oC? Anyone ? Thanks, Olivier ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Rapeseed Biofuel Produces More Greenhouse Gas Than Oil Or Petrol
Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2507851.ece September 22, 2007 Rapeseed Biofuel Produces More Greenhouse Gas Than Oil Or Petrol By Lewis Smith A renewable energy source designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is contributing more to global warming than fossil fuels, a study suggests. Measurements of emissions from the burning of biofuels derived from rapeseed and maize have been found to produce more greenhouse gas emissions than they save. Other biofuels, especially those likely to see greater use over the next decade, performed better than fossil fuels but the study raises serious questions about some of the most commonly produced varieties. Rapeseed and maize biodiesels were calculated to produce up to 70 per cent and 50 per cent more greenhouse gases respectively than fossil fuels. The concerns were raised over the levels of emissions of nitrous oxide, which is 296 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Scientists found that the use of biofuels released twice as much as nitrous oxide as previously realised. The research team found that 3 to 5 per cent of the nitrogen in fertiliser was converted and emitted. In contrast, the figure used by the International Panel on Climate Change, which assesses the extent and impact of man-made global warming, was 2 per cent. The findings illustrated the importance, the researchers said, of ensuring that measures designed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions are assessed thoroughly before being hailed as a solution. ³One wants rational decisions rather than simply jumping on the bandwagon because superficially something appears to reduce emissions,² said Keith Smith, a professor at the University of Edinburgh and one of the researchers. Maize for ethanol is the prime crop for biofuel in the US where production for the industry has recently overtaken the use of the plant as a food. In Europe the main crop is rapeseed, which accounts for 80 per cent of biofuel production. Professor Smith told Chemistry World: ³The significance of it is that the supposed benefits of biofuels are even more disputable than had been thought hitherto.² It was accepted by the scientists that other factors, such as the use of fossil fuels to produce fertiliser, have yet to be fully analysed for their impact on overall figures. But they concluded that the biofuels ³can contribute as much or more to global warming by N2 O emissions than cooling by fossil-fuel savings². The research is published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, where it has been placed for open review. The research team was formed of scientists from Britain, the US and Germany, and included Professor Paul Crutzen, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on ozone. Dr Franz Conen, of the University of Basel in Switzerland, described the study as an ³astounding insight². ³It is to be hoped that those taking decisions on subsidies and regulations will in future take N2O emissions into account and promote some forms of ¹biofuel¹ production while quickly abandoning others,² he told the journal¹s discussion board. Dr Dave Reay, of the University of Edinburgh, used the findings to calculate that with the US Senate aiming to increase maize ethanol production sevenfold by 2022, greenhouse gas emissions from transport will rise by 6 per cent. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Watch this
Interesting ! From: Fritz Friesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 11:28:56 -0400 To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: [Biofuel] Watch this Hi Kirk, did you watched the whole Video? I found a small (or big ) Mistake towards the End! Albert Einstein was presented as an other Austrian Scientist! In my books Einstein was born in Ulm Germany and this makes him a German Scientist! Being born in Germany, would that really make him German ? (even though, yes he was born German in Ulm in 1879)!) Just curiosity. But if it was born let say in Switzerland then he won't be Swiss. He would still be German. He did studied in Zurich Switzerland and worked in Berne Switzerland at his early age, then in Prague, 1911 before he became a teacher at the polytechnic school in Zurich (where he studied), 1912. Then in my book it says: He joined the Institute for Advanced Study de Princeton and later took the American nationality in 1940. And passed away in 1955 in Princeton. Not very important in my Philosophie but why the misrepresentation? Fritz Olivier ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] 9,000 Deaths A Year Caused By Diesel Fuel
Title: 9,000 Deaths A Year Caused By Diesel Fuel 9,000 Deaths A Year Caused By Diesel Fuel By Richard Gray The combination of economy and performance has won the hearts of millions of motorists. But Scottish scientists have uncovered disturbing new evidence that diesel engines are causing thousands of deaths each year. Researchers have identified tiny soot particles from diesel exhausts - 30 times smaller than the width of a human hair - as the chief culprits in 9,000 fatal heart attacks in the UK annually. The Edinburgh University team has worked out how the soot particles cross from the lungs into the blood stream, where they cause arteries to harden and clots to form. The findings are the hardest evidence yet of the deadly side-effects of diesel exhausts and will increase the pressure on manufacturers to fit engines with filters as standard. Researchers at Edinburgh's Queen's Medical Research Institute have identified exhaust particles called PM2.5s as the most damaging to the human body. The miniscule soot fragments are caused by incomplete burning of fuel. While petrol engines create PM2.5s, diesel generates vastly higher quantities because it is a heavier fuel. Professor Ken Donaldson, a toxicologist who helped lead the research team, said: These particles are so small they pass quite easily through face masks that people often wear to protect themselves from traffic fumes. Source: www.scotsman.com, 13 August 2006 ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Bern's buses soon to be powered by sewage gas
Title: Bern's buses soon to be powered by sewage gas Bern's buses soon to be powered by sewage gas swissinfo March 6, 2006 2:20 PM Industrial waste produces gas to drive buses (swissinfo) The Swiss capital's fleet of 100 buses will soon be switching to sewage gas - a cheaper and cleaner alternative to petrol. Construction work is underway on a pipeline to connect the Bern sewage works to the natural gas network, which will supply the city's bus depot. Bernmobil, which runs tram and bus services in the capital, expects the first 32 Volvo gas-powered buses to be delivered in May. As the rest of the fleet becomes obsolete, it will be replaced by the non-diesel models. Basel, Geneva, Lucerne and Lausanne all have gas-run buses, but so far only Lucerne uses biogas from the sewage plant. Its system was the first of its kind in Switzerland and went into production in January 2005. Bern expects to more than double the performance of the central Swiss plant, with a predicted annual production of 13 billion kilowatt hours. Food companies save money on waste disposal, and we get raw materials for making fuel. Beat Ammann, Bern sewage works Waste not, want not About 450 sewage treatment plants in Switzerland produce biogas. Bern is one of three that are about to enrich the gas to bring it up to natural gas standard so it can be used as fuel. Five more of the larger plants have applied for planning permission to build enrichment facilities. Some 190,000 houses are connected to the Bern sewage works, which treats 35 billion litres of wastewater a year. The resulting sludge from this treatment is fed into bioreactors, where it undergoes a digestion process from which biogas is produced with an average methane content of 65 per cent. Since the plant opened in 1967 this gas has been used to heat and power the plant. In the past few years however the plant has been producing more gas than it can use and a portion has to be burnt off. Instead of wasting fuel, the directors decided to upgrade the gas so that it has the same methane content as natural gas 96 per cent and can be fed into the natural gas network. The upgrading process removes carbon dioxide and water and harmful trace components such as hydrogen sulphide while increasing the relative methane content. New pipes to send biogas to the natural gas network (swissinfo) Advantages The Swiss government is keen to encourage the use of gas rather than petrol as a fuel source, partly because of increasing concerns over traffic pollution. The limits for breathable fine particles are regularly exceeded in built-up areas, costing billions of francs in healthcare. >From 2007, natural gas will no longer be subject to government fuel taxes, while petrol and diesel taxes will increase. The amount of nitrogen emitted into the atmosphere from the new gas-powered fleet will be reduced from the current annual level of 75 tons to 34 tons, Beat Ammann, Bern sewage plant director, told swissinfo. Gas-powered buses have other advantages over diesel. Jean-Marc Hensch, director of the Swiss Gas Industry Association, says they are quieter and their fuel reservoirs are more resistant to damage. If the gas should escape, it simply dissipates, whereas spilled diesel tends to pool on the ground and present a further fire hazard, Hensch told swissinfo. Competition The recent boost in gas production at the Bern sewage works is largely due to deliveries of waste from the food industry: the amount has doubled since 2003. Seventy-three Swiss farms produce biogas from rotting compost, and they are also looking to maximise their incomes by adding food leftovers to their bioreactors. So there is stiff competition for industrial clients. Biogas production is clearly a growth industry, but it may take a long time before it can supply enough fuel to run ten per cent of Swiss buses and cars the target of the Agency for Renewable Energy and the gas industry. Agency director Arthur Wellinger predicts that, by 2010, only ten per cent of traffic will be powered by gas, and ten per cent of that will be made up of biogas. swissinfo, Julie Hunt URL of this story http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=105sid=6479699 Related Sites Bern sewage works website: http://www.ara-bern.ch/e/hp/index.html Agency for Renewable Energy website (German, French, Italian): http://www.aee.ch/ Swiss Gas Industry Association website (German, French, Italian): http://www.erdgas.ch/ Bernmobil website: http://www.bernmobil.ch/english/index.php ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] In French ?
I have some friends in the French side of Switzerland, Geneva, who are interested to try to make Biodiesel. They already have a car (a LandRover I beleive) running on SVO. But they do not speak (nor read) english. Do you know by any chance a good web site where they can find information on how to produce in French ? Thanks, Olivier ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Biogas in Nepal / BSP - Nepal Seeks a New Executive Director
From Clean Energy NEWS Vol. 5, Number 45, 18 October 2005 CE News is published weekly by Clean Energy Nepal. For more information on our campaign and back issues of CE News please log on to http://www.cen.org.np/ BSP - Nepal Seeks a New Executive Director Biogas Sector Partnership - Nepal (BSP - Nepal), the award winning NGO promoting biogas systems in Nepal is on the look out for an Executive Director to lead the organization. The candidate should have at least 35 years of age and have a Masters Degree and seven years of experience in a senior management position. For more information please contact, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The BSP web site : www.bspnepal.org.np ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Cargill To Open German Biodiesel Plant
From Clean Energy NEWS Vol. 5, Number 45, 18 October 2005 CE News is published weekly by Clean Energy Nepal. For more information on our campaign and back issues of CE News please log on to http://www.cen.org.np/ Cargill To Open German Biodiesel Plant International agricultural company Cargill, has announced plans to build a 25 million biodiesel plant in Germany. The plant will be built in the Hochst industrial park, about 30km from the company's oilseed crush plant in Mainz. More than 200,000 tonnes of fuel will be produced at the plant each year, creating fifteen new jobs. Construction is expected to begin toward the end of 2005 with production commencing in August 2006. The plant will turn vegetable oils into biodiesel. See also: www.cargill.com ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Malaysia To Make Biofuel Mandatory By 2008
Malaysia To Make Biofuel Mandatory By 2008 Source: Reuters, Kuala Lumpur, 7 October 2005 Malaysia, the world's top palm oil producer, will make a palm oil-based fuel a mandatory additive at petrol pumps by 2008, a newspaper said on Thursday, part of government efforts to cut its diesel subsidy bill. With crude oil prices expected to remain high, Malaysia is seeking to encourage national use of a biofuel that is made from 95 per cent diesel and 5 per cent processed palm oil. Legislators are expected to pass a law next year to introduce the new product, and give motorists a year to try it out before making it mandatory, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Peter Chin told The Star. We will enforce it and make everyone comply, the minister was quoted as saying.There will no longer be unadulterated diesel on sale, he said, referring to the planned switch of diesel to the new blend. The head of the government-run Malaysian Palm Oil Board told Reuters last month that biofuel would be ready at domestic pumps and for export by October 2006. Biofuels are taking on new importance worldwide as the cost of petroleum products rise and as countries seek to cut emissions to meet the UN Kyoto Protocol. Burning the biofuel is considered to be carbon- dioxide neutral and does not require emissions rights. Malaysia, a net exporter of oil and gas, heavily subsidies pump prices of petrol and diesel, putting a serious strain on its budget as the cost of fossil fuels has surged. The government estimates that it will spend 16 billion ringgit ($4.2 billion) on fuel subsidies in 2005, a 34 per cent jump from last year. Malaysia consumes up to 190,000 barrels per day (bpd) of diesel and gas oil. It produces less than 14 million tonnes of palm oil a year, of which more than 12 million are exported. Adding 5 per cent biofuel to diesel at pumps will help cut 500,000 tonnes of diesel a year, or about 10,000 bpd, officials have said. Source: Reuters, Kuala Lumpur, 7 October 2005 ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Nepal's Biogas Program Bags Coveted Award
Nepal's Biogas Program Bags Coveted Award By Kunda Dixit Nepal's internationally-recognised biogas promotion program has got yet another feather in its cap. The Biogas Sector Program (BSP) has won this year's prestigious Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy, beating out hundreds of other applicants worldwide. BSP Executive Director Sundar Bajgain received the award from Prince Charles earlier this month in London at a gala ceremony at the Royal Geographical Society attended by 300 dignitaries. The citation for the 30,000 pound award says BSP won for 'outstanding achievement in using sustainable energy to improve the quality of life and protecting the environment'. Since it was launched in 1992 with Dutch and German support, BSP has built 137,000 family-size biogas plants in 66 of Nepal's 75 districts, saving 400,000 tons of firewood, 800,000 litres of kerosene and preventing 600,000 tons of greenhouse gases from escaping into the atmosphere. At a ceremony last week in Kathmandu to celebrate the award, Bajgain said the Ashden prize money would be ploughed back into BSP's cold climate biogas research, which is integrating biogas with rainwater harvesting in arid high-altitude areas of Nepal. The Ashden award coincides with the launch this weekend of Biogas: Theory and Development by the founding father of biogas research and application in Nepal, Dr Amrit Bahadur Karki, with Jagan Nath Shrestha and Sundar Bajgain. This book has everything you always wanted to know about generating methane from dung but were too hoity-toity to ask. The book is a result of Karki's lifetime of work in appropriate technology, not just in Nepal but in Africa and southeast Asia. In that sense it is a labour of love. It is also a tribute to the application of the technology in the field by the BSP. The only thing we can add is that this book should be translated into Nepali and disseminated as widely as possible so Nepali farmers benefit even more from biogas' proven benefits. Source: Nepali Times 22-28 July 2005 ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Italy Plans SUV Tax, Incentives to Scrap Old Cars
Italy Plans SUV Tax, Incentives to Scrap Old Cars The Italian government is planning to introduce a new tax on big polluting cars such as sports utility vehicles (SUVs), a move which could benefit Turin-based Fiat but incur the wrath of other European countries. Environment Minister Altero Matteoli said taxes on the gas-guzzlers could be used to fund incentives for people to scrap old cars and buy more environmentally friendly ones. Italian streets have traditionally swarmed with small runarounds, often Fiats, but in the last year SUVs such as the Porsche Cayenne and BMW X5 have taken off in popularity, often jamming narrow city roads. Taxing SUVs would not only be a tax on pollution but also on causing traffic jams, Environment Minister Altero Matteoli said in an interview with Friday's Corriere della Sera paper. Petrol-hungry SUVs are pretty much the norm in the United States but have raised ire around Europe where environmentalists decry their emission levels and mayors moan that they are a hazard to pedestrians, cyclists and smaller cars. Earlier this year, France proposed raising taxes on them but put the plan on hold when Germany argued the move protected French companies that make smaller cars, as does Fiat. Matteoli said Italy's Environment Ministry was working on a way of calculating road taxes depending on a car's pollution level - the size of its engine, its registration year and the sort of fuel it uses. That would again benefit Fiat, whose fuel-efficient Multijet diesel engine is one of Italy's best sellers. Matteoli said he could reintroduce incentives for people to scrap old cars which spew out more pollution than new ones. It isn't fair to put a higher road tax on older cars that often belong to poorer people. (So we could) provide incentives for people wanting to change those cars, possibly using the money we get from taxing polluting cars, he said. Source: Reuters News Service ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Change in the Chinese Wind
Change in the Chinese Wind By Stephen Leahy The world's largest wind power project will begin construction this month near Beijing, bringing green energy and cleaner air to the 2008 Summer Olympics and city residents coping with some of the worst air pollution in the world. The new wind power plant, located 60 miles outside Beijing in Guangting, will generate 400 megawatts per day, nearly doubling the electrical energy China currently obtains from wind. But that's just the beginning. Last summer at a climate change conference in Bonn, Germany, China surprised many by announcing it will generate 12 percent of its energy from renewable sources such as wind by 2020. At least 400,000 people in China die each year from air-pollution-related illnesses, the World Bank reports. Pollution is not China's only energy problem. It is also plagued by frequent and widespread power failures because its generating capacity cannot keep pace with industrial and consumer demands. The country leads the world in purchases of TV sets and other appliances. While China has low-quality coal in abundance, its transportation infrastructure cannot ship enough coal from the mines in the west to the cities in the east, said Jie. Electrical energy self-sufficiency is a crucial goal for the Chinese leadership, especially as oil imports soar to provide gasoline for the 14,000 new motor vehicles being added to its streets every day. These factors have pushed China to invite Western energy experts, including environmental groups like Greenpeace and the National Resources Defense Council, to help China become more energy-efficient and figure out how to produce 20,000 megawatts from wind by 2020. A megawatt is a million watts, sufficient power to light 10,000 100-watt bulbs, or enough daily electricity for 600 to 1,000 households, depending on energy use. Germany currently leads the world, generating 12,000 megawatts from wind, with the United States well behind at 5,000 megawatts. China is looking to Germany and Denmark to supply the technology and the policy models upon which to base a new renewable-energy law, said Jie. This is the first time China has asked outsiders to comment on a proposed law. China's wind power potential is huge -- 500,000, perhaps 600,000 megawatts -- but it needs the proper legal framework, said Corin Millais, executive director of the Brussels-based European Wind Energy Association. The association has contributed input on the Chinese renewable-energy law. China has a complex mix of state, local and private energy generators, with multiple levels of subsidies and often conflicting regulations. Changes in state and federal laws are needed, along with clear rules about who sets the price and who owns the wind power farms; otherwise the wind-energy boom won't happen, said Millais. The Chinese want to pursue private-public partnerships with European companies, but because up to 80 percent of the total cost of a wind farm is building it, companies need a reliable price structure for the power they sell, he said. The new law is expected to be in place by next summer, and if it has the right ingredients, the Chinese landscape will soon blossom with fields of 2- and 3-megawatt wind turbines. Another reason China is looking to wind is because it is now as cheap as coal, said Kyle Datta, managing director at Colorado's Rocky Mountain Institute, a leading independent energy research center. And if the health costs associated with coal burning are considered, wind is actually a lot cheaper, said Datta, who researched the Chinese energy market while co-authoring a book, Winning the Oil Endgame: American Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security. People in Chinese cities would also prefer it (wind energy) to all those diesel generators they needed last summer just to keep the lights on some of the time, Datta said. Solving China's pollution problems while meeting its energy needs will be difficult and will require a mix of power-generation technologies, including biomass, solar and hydro, he added. Although China has little interest in nuclear power because of its high cost and security concerns, a few more nuclear plants will also be built, Datta said. China is also turning the current problem into an opportunity. By using its low-cost manufacturing ability, it will soon be a major supplier of power-generation equipment. China already produces solar cells much cheaper than elsewhere, Datta said. It's a country that's remarkably open to new ideas. Source: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65139,00.html ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Oilseeds Likely to Benefit from Boom in Bio-Diesel
Oilseeds Likely to Benefit from Boom in Bio-Diesel As world interest in eco-friendly renewable sources of fuel expands rapidly, more oilseed production or vegetable oil consumption is going towards bio-diesel. This trend has implications for world vegetable oil production and prices in the coming years. Emulating the world`s largest bio-diesel producers and consumers - European Union and Brazil, several developing countries have ventured into bio-diesel production using indigenous plant material. While world production of oilseeds and palm oil is forecast to expand in 2004-05 to 379 million tonnes (mt) and 29.8 mt respectively, consumption too is forecast to grow. Source: Business Line, New Delhi, 3 August 2004 ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Indian NE Railway for Jatropha Plants
Indian NE Railway for Jatropha Plants India's North-Eastern Railway will grow 450,000 Jatropha Carcus plants this year along railway tracks and other land under its control for bio-diesel. The NE Railway General Manager, Mr J P Batra, said that bio-diesel extracted from the plant had been successfully tested in rail engines. Source: Business Line, New Delhi, 14 August, 2004 ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[biofuel] Clean Energy Goes To College
Clean Energy Goes To College by Fred Durso Jr. There is a new wave of activism sweeping across college campuses. Student groups are coordinating efforts to reduce fossil-fuel dependency by pushing for more renewable alternatives and putting forth-specific goals for their colleges. They're also synchronizing their actions with other campuses across the United States, putting up a united front for cleaner energy. This is a growing movement, and more and more students are getting involved, said Billy Parish, director of the Climate Campaign, a network of 10 student environmental organizations. What's driving it is the Bush administration's disastrous energy policy. Some 125 schools took part in a National Day of Action last April 1. Also known as Fossil Fools Day, the event included demonstrations promoting renewable energy and protests against the Bush administration's fossil-fuel-friendly energy plan. College campuses are pollution factories. A recent Yale University study reports that the school emits more greenhouse gases than 32 developing countries. With 84 percent of emissions coming from on-campus power plants (burning a mix of fuel oil and natural gas), Yale surpasses the Cayman Islands and Central African Republic in total annual emissions. Students are bringing the energy protests home. At Temple University in Philadelphia, students are rallying behind wind power, recently passing a resolution expressing willingness to pay an extra fee for it on their term bill. If the plan goes through, it will be the third-largest university purchase of clean energy, supplying 7 percent of the institution's needs, said Kim Teplitzky, a member of Students for Environmental Action at Temple. Sarah Hammond Creighton, author of Greening the Ivory Tower, is leading the Tufts Climate Initiative. Tufts has a longstanding commitment to action on 'greening,' she said. In 1999, the Tufts campus pledged to meet or exceed the Kyoto Treaty goals of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. In 2002, the campus began work on a solar residence hall, which will incorporate energy-efficiency and photovoltaic electricity. Tufts has also joined the Zipcar car-sharing program and purchased four zero-emission electric cars from Toyota. Environmental groups at Columbia University have joined forces to create the C.U. Green Umbrella. The goals this year include pressuring the New York state legislature to cap carbon emissions and convincing the university to make more socially responsible investments. Building a solid activist community will guarantee tangible results in our campaigns, said Columbia student Anjana Sharma. We need to make the change now to renewable energy sources, instead of doing it when we have no other choice. Source: E/The Environmental Magazine, 13 August 2004 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM ~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] Nepal Biogas and more ... Greenbacks for being green
Greenbacks for being green Nepalis can soon start collecting their reward for not polluting the earth by NAVIN SINGH KHADKA http://www.nepalitimes.com/issue207/nation_2.htm [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM ~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] Dream from Nepal
Thanks Keith, Yes, there are EV on the road carrying people over here, a minority unfortunately. The article blame the government of not helping, while it is true, I also read in the local newspaper that EV tempo owner where not happy when the same Lotus Energy company failed providing new batteries as promised. Maybe they where not able to import them due to the same government. But just to say that it is not simple. The car manufacturer mention in the article, the only Nepali cars called Sherpa are manufactured by Hulas Motors P. Ltd. with parts from china. Have a look at http://www.nepalnews.com.np/ntimes/issue184/cars_3.htm No I don't know Bill Robins, even though I leave in Sanepa at 5 minutes from St. Xavier's School. Regarding making a test batch I agree. In fact I bought the chemicals (Methanol and NaOH) maybe 6 months ago. Then I couldn't find the time (away from the kids) and winter came and.. and, well, they are still on the shelf. I really don't know how big is the soap market here. They are quite a few hand made soap producer but I really don't know of big is, if there is one, the commercial soap market. The stove used over here by the majority, especially in the rural community are pressure stoves. There is a container on the side of the burner where you have the kerosene and a hand-pump to create the pressure. Thanks for the long answer, it give food for thought. As I knew, I need more time to do more research. Namaste (hello and bye in Nepali) Olivier - Original Message - From: Keith Addison To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:32 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Dream from Nepal Hi Olivier Interesting, thankyou. I have been reading about biodiesel and I am thinking it may be a good idea for Nepal to produce some. All petroleum product are imported from India. Kathmandu is one of the most polluted city in the world. Yes, it's horrible! All the more horrible because it's such a wonderful place. IMHO. I have some other stories about the pollution there too, but this one is quite interesting: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/from_our_own_correspondent/2932152.stm 24 May, 2003 Electric solution to Nepalese pollution I think the American Jesuit priest mentioned would be Bill Robins of St. Xavier's School in Jawalkhel, wouldn't it? Maybe you know him? Nepal consumed in the year 2058 (year2002) almost 400 million liters of Kerosene, 300 of diesel and 60 of petrol. But it is only at the thinking stage as I have not given much time to this project. I'm a daddy at home with 2 kids, my daughter is almost 4y and my son is 19 months, plus some other projects in orphanages. My wife is a UNV (United Nation Volunteer) which also makes things a little short on the economic side of a possible try. It doesn't stop you making a start though, that hardly costs anything at all, and it's sure to give you further ideas, and maybe better ideas, even if you just make a few one-litre test batches. Useful also to know how to do that much because it's an effective demonstration for others of how easy it is. Start here: Where do I start? http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make.html#start Biodiesel need to be at least as cheap as the diesel. Here it is subsidized and the cost at the pump is 31 Npr a liter (today 1 US$ = 72 Npr). A possibility is to find subsidies for biodiesel. AFAIK there is money to be had for clean-air programs in the Asia region, from ADB maybe? Of course that's a different game, but it might be worth investigating. Before even trying I am looking at the cost side of producing. I found noodle factories, extremely popular in Nepal, are using oil. They are selling the used oil to soap factory at about 20 Nrp/liter. Is the soap market that big? You might check with the soap factories to see if they have any excess. We can get methanol for 35 Npr/liter if we buy 4000 liters (otherwise it is 300 Npr/liter +tax). NaOH in pellets is 212 Npr for 500gr. If I am right it makes 1 liter of oil 20.- 200ml methanol7.- 3.5ml NaOH1.47 =28.47 Npr per liter of oil processed at best as we may need more NaOH in used oil. If we can sale the glycerin to soap factory we may be able to get the litter of biodiesel at 31 or less per liter. To do that you'd have to separate the glycerin from the rest of the by-product, which means adding the cost of phosphoric acid, and then calculating into your figures the extra cost of using KOH instead of NaOH - *after* investigating whether there'd be a ready market for the potassium phosphates fertiliser which would be the other by-product (along with separated Free Fatty Acids which you could perhaps use as heating fuel to further reduce processing costs). After all that you'd have a not very pure form of glycerine which you might be able to sell, but perhaps not to the soap factories - commercial soap operations usually remove the glycerine and sell it elsewhere for more than they'd get for it if they left it
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Do you read the message until the end or just the titles ? Just kidding ;-) The procedure is written at the bottom of each and every messages. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Olivier - Original Message - From: Lucia Castellanos To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 1:27 AM Subject: [biofuel] i want to unsubscribe Do you know how i can unsubscribe from the biodiesel group?? its interesting... but it blocks my email account.. thanks _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] Re: Biogas was Rejoining list with a question
I gave you a 10 cubic meters capacity as an example. The manual start at 4 cubic meter approximately 2-3 cattles (24 Kg and 24litters). My guess is that any dung can do, pigs included. Once I asked the guy at BSP about humans and the answer was as long as you have the quantity. You know what, I'll scan it send it to you and Keith, maybe Keith has a place for it on a web site... and you decide what you want to do with it once you read it. What about that ? Olivier - Original Message - From: Kim Garth Travis To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 1:51 AM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: Biogas was Rejoining list with a question I thank you for the offer, but at this time I think it is too large a capacity. While I do have 2 cows, they are pastured at all times, so collecting their dung is not convenient. We do have rabbits, [At present 30, but this changes constantly,]humans [2] and pigs [5] that the dung is easy to collect. I am hoping to create a small system that I can use to cook with in the summer and to learn on. When I find out how well the system works with our lives, then I will be looking at a larger system that can generate electricity. If I can eliminate my AC bill in the summer, the system could pay for itself fairly quickly. Bright Blessings, Kim At 01:12 PM 4/15/2004, you wrote: Kim, Not much on this link unfortunatly http://www.biogasnepal.org/ I found the drawing and documents about BSP and their biogaz plant in my pile of document. I have to say that I never build one. What I have is drawing with size to build one and a construction Manual for a GGC 2047 Model. They called it a fixed dome type design. I cote This model was designed and developed in Nepal. This model is considered as a reliable, well functioning, simple, low maintenance cost and durable design. They give the quantity of dung and watter based on the volume of the digestor. For example a 10 cubic meters capacity need Daily Fresh Dung 60Kg and Daily water 60 liters ( requires approx. 6-9 cattles). The Dome type design is a continuous system where you add the dung+water in one side via inlet pit with or without a mixer (to mix dung and water) and the gaz pressure created push the digested slurry out the other side out of an overflow outlet. If you want me to send you a copy of the document I have let me know, I will need to scan them Olivier [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] Biogas was Rejoining list with a question
Kim, I can have a look at what I can find here in Nepal. Here in Nepal they have build a number of Biogaz plant. I can't remember the statistics but is several 1000 of them. I have drawing on how to build one as well as what and how to feed, somewhere I can probably dig from my pile of documents. But they are basic digester used to produce gaz usually for cooking. The idea being the villagers do not have to go far for wood, (deforestation), and they get less poisonned then using Karozene cooker. The projects here was supported by Dannida (a Danish agency). I'll look and when found I contact you, maybe someone else in the mean time will have those info handy. Olivier - Original Message - From: Keith Addison To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Biogas was Rejoining list with a question Doesn't anyone have an answer for Kim? Keith Okay, I have read what is available in the journeytoforever library on biogas. My question: Has anyone on this list ever built a biogas digester? I have no problem finding the material to feed one, but I will admit to be less than confident with the instructions given. Bright Blessings, Kim At 12:47 PM 4/8/2004, you wrote: Keith, I am pleased to see you joining in on this discussion because I think this topic is right down you alley. I would like to suggest that the biogas energy be recovered in a small, slow speed, long life diesel generator such as a Lister Engine rather than a steam engine. Diesel engines deliver about three times the KWHr per /BTU than steam engines due to higher operating efficiency. Biogas needs to be combusted in a diesel engine rather than a gasoline engine because the diesel has a higher compression ratio (biogas needs about 12 - 14:1 compression ratio for best combustion). The waste heat from the water jacket on the Lister engine is more than sufficient to maintain thermophilic temperatures of the biogas reactor and you still have the heat from the engine exhaust for other higher energy uses as well. About 25% of the biogas energy will be recovered as electricity and the remainder as heat energy at various temperatures. It is important to look at the monthly and seasonal energy consumption profile to determine how much energy should be recovered in each form (summer vs winter usages). Do you need 5 KWHr per day as electricity and 50,000 BTU's as space heat and 6,000 BTU's for cooking gas and 30,000 BTU's for hot water, etc. Then you can lay out the size of each the components necessary to convert the biogas into the appropriate form of energy. Perhaps some of the biogas will bypass the diesel engine and be fed directly into a water heater burner because your needs are for greater amounts of hot water for example. One of the nice features is that the biogas system produces energy fairly uniformly 24 hours per day. So with a small amount of batteries and insulated tanks, you can easily handle typical surges in demand during the day. Of, course it also helps if you have a way to continuously supply the wastes needed to feed the biogas reactor. Having a herd of pigs, cows or horses helps alot. You might find yourself supply limited and need to import other wastes such as grass clippings or grain wastes or food wastes, etc to make up for a feedstock supply deficiency. One thing is certain - ALL of these efforts should be made to maximize the return of organic matter to soil as a mature soil amendment. Then the discussions about sustainability can begin. Art Krenzel - Original Message - From: Keith Addison To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 10:01 AM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Rejoining list with a question Hi Kim Good to see you back. Keith, I told you I would be back grin I thought it was going to be a year or two, glad you made it sooner. Greetings, I was a member of this list for several years, but quit to have time to learn other things. I hope all the regulars are doing well, and I hope to get to know all the new people. My husband and I own 20 acres in Texas and we are trying to live and farm sustainably. For now we are on the grid, but hope to change that one day. We practise alternative building, such as paper adobe and cordwood. The question: This months issue of Backwoods Home Magazine has an article, by Rev. J.D. Hooker, on burning manure. It states that they get 'somewhat greater heating value than seasoned hardwood.'By using the ashes in the garden, after several years of application have reach a rate of 'more than 40% higher' than the garden with
[biofuel] correction
It was not Danida but SNV (BSP-SNV) Netherlands Development Organisation in Nepal - Original Message - From: Olivier Morf To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:18 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Biogas was Rejoining list with a question Kim, I can have a look at what I can find here in Nepal. Here in Nepal they have build a number of Biogaz plant. I can't remember the statistics but is several 1000 of them. I have drawing on how to build one as well as what and how to feed, somewhere I can probably dig from my pile of documents. But they are basic digester used to produce gaz usually for cooking. The idea being the villagers do not have to go far for wood, (deforestation), and they get less poisonned then using Karozene cooker. The projects here was supported by Dannida (a Danish agency). I'll look and when found I contact you, maybe someone else in the mean time will have those info handy. Olivier - Original Message - From: Keith Addison To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Biogas was Rejoining list with a question Doesn't anyone have an answer for Kim? Keith Okay, I have read what is available in the journeytoforever library on biogas. My question: Has anyone on this list ever built a biogas digester? I have no problem finding the material to feed one, but I will admit to be less than confident with the instructions given. Bright Blessings, Kim At 12:47 PM 4/8/2004, you wrote: Keith, I am pleased to see you joining in on this discussion because I think this topic is right down you alley. I would like to suggest that the biogas energy be recovered in a small, slow speed, long life diesel generator such as a Lister Engine rather than a steam engine. Diesel engines deliver about three times the KWHr per /BTU than steam engines due to higher operating efficiency. Biogas needs to be combusted in a diesel engine rather than a gasoline engine because the diesel has a higher compression ratio (biogas needs about 12 - 14:1 compression ratio for best combustion). The waste heat from the water jacket on the Lister engine is more than sufficient to maintain thermophilic temperatures of the biogas reactor and you still have the heat from the engine exhaust for other higher energy uses as well. About 25% of the biogas energy will be recovered as electricity and the remainder as heat energy at various temperatures. It is important to look at the monthly and seasonal energy consumption profile to determine how much energy should be recovered in each form (summer vs winter usages). Do you need 5 KWHr per day as electricity and 50,000 BTU's as space heat and 6,000 BTU's for cooking gas and 30,000 BTU's for hot water, etc. Then you can lay out the size of each the components necessary to convert the biogas into the appropriate form of energy. Perhaps some of the biogas will bypass the diesel engine and be fed directly into a water heater burner because your needs are for greater amounts of hot water for example. One of the nice features is that the biogas system produces energy fairly uniformly 24 hours per day. So with a small amount of batteries and insulated tanks, you can easily handle typical surges in demand during the day. Of, course it also helps if you have a way to continuously supply the wastes needed to feed the biogas reactor. Having a herd of pigs, cows or horses helps alot. You might find yourself supply limited and need to import other wastes such as grass clippings or grain wastes or food wastes, etc to make up for a feedstock supply deficiency. One thing is certain - ALL of these efforts should be made to maximize the return of organic matter to soil as a mature soil amendment. Then the discussions about sustainability can begin. Art Krenzel - Original Message - From: Keith Addison To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 10:01 AM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Rejoining list with a question Hi Kim Good to see you back. Keith, I told you I would be back grin I thought it was going to be a year or two, glad you made it sooner. Greetings, I was a member of this list for several years, but quit to have time to learn other things. I hope all the regulars are doing well, and I hope to get to know all the new people. My husband and I own 20 acres in Texas and we are trying to live and farm sustainably. For now we are on the grid, but hope to change that one
Re: [biofuel] Re: Biogas was Rejoining list with a question
Kim, Not much on this link unfortunatly http://www.biogasnepal.org/ I found the drawing and documents about BSP and their biogaz plant in my pile of document. I have to say that I never build one. What I have is drawing with size to build one and a construction Manual for a GGC 2047 Model. They called it a fixed dome type design. I cote This model was designed and developed in Nepal. This model is considered as a reliable, well functioning, simple, low maintenance cost and durable design. They give the quantity of dung and watter based on the volume of the digestor. For example a 10 cubic meters capacity need Daily Fresh Dung 60Kg and Daily water 60 liters ( requires approx. 6-9 cattles). The Dome type design is a continuous system where you add the dung+water in one side via inlet pit with or without a mixer (to mix dung and water) and the gaz pressure created push the digested slurry out the other side out of an overflow outlet. If you want me to send you a copy of the document I have let me know, I will need to scan them Olivier [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] DMFC - Direct Methanol Fuel Cell
Not really a biofuel but I found it interesting. http://www.japancorp.net/Article.Asp?Art_ID=4845 Exctract: Japan, Mar 5, 2003 - (JCN Newswire) - Toshiba Corporation today announced the world's first prototype of a small form factor direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) for portable PCs, a clean energy breakthrough with the potential to end reliance on rechargeable batteries. The new fuel cell currently realizes average output of 12W and maximum output of 20W, and can achieve approximately five hours of operation with a single cartridge of fuel. It provides instant power supply, and achieves significant advances in operating times with replaceable methanol cartridges. Toshiba will present the DMFC at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany from March 12 to 19. etc Olivier [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] Norway Decides to Put Nature Before Oil
Source: http://www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/other_news/news.cfm?uNewsID=10212 15, Dec 2003 Norway to put nature before oil Oslo, Norway - WWF today said the Norwegian government had made history by putting nature before oil when it announced that it would not open the Lofoten Islands to oil development. The decision is a turning point in history of oil development in sensitive areas. The decision is a U-turn for the Norwegian government, which offered the seas off the islands for oil development after oil companies expressed an interest in drilling there. The government has decided not to allow exploration in the area despite claims by the oil companies that there was as much as $US1 billion worth of oil beneath the seas. Pressure from WWF, fishermen, and tourist operators in the last two months, together with deep unease in political and social circles in Norway, forced the government to decide NO to oil drilling in Lofoten, until 2005. WWF expects that in 2005 the government will fully protect the Lofoten Islands on completion of its Barents Sea Management Plan. The Lofoten Islands are home to the world's largest cod and herring stocks, shoals of sperm whales and killer whales, some of the largest sea bird colonies in Europe, including puffin and cormorant, and the world's biggest cold water coral reef, which was only discovered last year. The island community is almost entirely dependent on fishing and tourism for survival. Samantha Smith, director of WWF's Arctic Programme, said: This is a landmark decision which oil companies planning to explore in the Arctic should take note of. Some things are more important than short-term oil and gas profits. It is no longer acceptable to explore for oil in biologically vulnerable and valuable areas. We have seen this happen in the US over the Arctic Refuge and now we have seen it in Lofoten. However, WWF was surprised and disappointed by the government's decision to allow exploratory drilling in the Goliath field off northern Norway. The area is very close to major seabird colonies and fish spawning grounds. Samantha Smith said: The Norwegian government is producing a management plan of the Barents Sea and the idea that it can somehow open up areas of that sea - like Goliath - for oil and gas development before this is completed is crazy and totally inconsistent. WWF will not allow full scale development to take place in Goliath without a major battle. WWF has issued its own report this month, The Barents Sea Ecoregion Biodiversity Assessment, which maps the vulnerable and valuable areas of the Barents. It shows that areas where the oil industry wishes to drill for oil are in some of these most vulnerable areas. The Barents Sea is still one of Europe's last large, clean and relatively undisturbed ecosystems. Among its most spectacular features are the world's highest density of seabirds, some of the world's richest fisheries, and diverse and rare communities of marine mammals. For further information: Samantha Smith WWF Arctic Programme Tel: + 47 22 03 65 18 or +47 45 02 21 49(mobile) Julian Woolford WWF Arctic Programme Tel.: +47 22 03 65 10 or +47 22 20 06 66 (mobile) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] Nepal's Biogas Plants Set to Attract Worldwide Attention a t COP9
[biofuel] China to Put Corn Into Gas Tanks
China to Put Corn Into Gas Tanks By Nao Nakanishi Jilin province, home to China's first car factory and also its biggest corn producer, is putting corn and cars together in a project to ease the country's exploding pollution ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Like many other agriculture giants such as Brazil, the United States, and India, the northeast province is using its huge farm surplus to make organic fuel that cuts pollution, and reduces dependency on petroleum imports at the same time. Industry sources say, China, which is the world's fastest growing car and energy market, could extend the use of ethanol gasoline throughout the country by 2005 if initial exploratory steps are successful. An Olympics shrouded in smog is not a scene China wants to show the world, but that is what it will look like, unless the traffic pollution in major cities is brought under control. Turning grains into fuel also happens to allow the government to continue to subsidize agriculture outside its obligations under the World Trade Organization (WTO), avoiding more social unrest from farmers who are now exposed to global competition. In Jilin, not far from the provincial capital Changchun, one of the world's largest fuel ethanol plants is currently gearing up for full operation. From October 18, all car, truck and bus drivers in the province must blend into their gasoline 10 percent of the biofuel distilled from corn. A similar policy nationwide would make a significant dent in regular gasoline consumption, which totaled more than 37 million tonnes last year. Fuel ethanol cuts greenhouse gas emissions that are held responsible for global warming. It can be produced also from wheat, sugar, rapeseed, palm oil, cassava or even recycled food oil, such as old frying oil collected from fast food restaurants. Jilin Fuel plant is one of four Chinese ethanol plants under construction, including one in neighboring Heilongjiang, one in the eastern province Anhui, and another in wheat-producing Henan. Such projects are viable only in grain-producing areas, Liu Yi, technical department manager told Reuters at the plant in the outskirts of Jilin city, from where the hills of the province's vast corn fields roll off far away and out of sight. Jilin, which is three times the size of Austria, accounts for more than 10 percent of China's annual corn output of about 120 million tonnes, the second biggest after the United States. It takes about three tonnes of corn to produce one ton of ethanol. Jilin Fuel will purchase corn from farmers and store it in silos at the sprawling complex. The air here is filled with a sweet smell, similar to a brewery, as it conducts test runs. The plant cost 1.94 billion yuan (about $235 million) and is equipped with its own power generators as well as water treatment facilities, still a rarity for China. Along with Beijing, the local government has provided favorable taxes and low-interest loans to the company. It has also promised subsidies to make up for the difference between gasoline and ethanol prices. Liu calculated ethanol to cost about 4,000 yuan ($484) per tonne, compared with gasoline at 2,700 yuan ($327) a tonne. With car sales doubling this year to over two million, the International Energy Agency forecast that China would overtake Japan next year as the second largest oil consumer after the United States. Jilin Fuel Ethanol, a joint venture between the China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), China Resources Enterprises Ltd and Jilin Grain Group (JGG), is to convert 900,000 tonnes of corn into 300,000 tonnes of fuel ethanol each year. It plans to double its capacity to 600,000 tonnes after that. China has recently been trying to pull back from grain export markets because it cannot continue to pay out the export subsidies it used to under WTO trade rules. To help the fuel ethanol company is to help improve farmers income, restructure the old ariculture system and help maintain social stability, Hong Hu, governor of Jilin province, said. It's a top government agenda item. Over the past decade, China accumulated massive grains stocks as results of its policy of food security but these are now costing a fortune in storage fees, and are depressing prices of new crop, which hurts farmers. Jilin alone is estimated to have over 20 million tonnes of corn in stock. Maybe they are willing to say 'Okay this is in the name of fuel security and environmental protection ... we'll do this', said one source in Beijing, who declined to be named. And if the prices of grains go too high, that's good for the farmers. Source: http://www.planetark.org/avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=22580 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at
[biofuel] Nepal/Ethanol Mix will Make Petrol Cheaper
Hi all, I have been a lurkers for some times. I am Swiss (from the French speaking side) living in Nepal. I am trying to learn as much as possible during my free time about biodiesel as I think that it may be a good project opportunity, both for the environnement (Kathmandu being one of the most polluted city of the planet) as well as a supplementary source of income for the farmers producing the oil seeds. I have not study the economic yet and therefore I am not sure about the viability of my idea. Anyway, I thought the under may add to the general knowledge of the world fuel landscape. Namaste from Kathmandu, Olivier Ethanol Mix will Make Petrol Cheaper By Milan Mani Sharma With an aim to use ethyl alcohol in the transportation sector and reduce dependency on imported petrol, the Cabinet has approved a proposal to mix ethanol with petrol. It will also effect a reduction in the price of petrol. The decision, which was taken during the last Cabinet meeting, allows mixing of 10 per cent ethanol in petrol, according to Dinesh Chandra Pyakurel, Secretary at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies (MoICS), who informed The Kathmandu Post, We're planning to enforce the decision from January 15, 2003. Once implemented, it will directly lower petrol price by about Rs. 4 per litre, said a member of the committee. The price of ethanol is far cheaper at Rs. 10 per litre while consumers are currently paying Rs. 54 for a litre of petrol. The exercise to use ethanol in petrol was started about three years ago when experts, going by international practices, suggested to the government to follow the trend. A committee constituted to study the issue had identified the idea that would save the country millions of rupees otherwise spent on the import of petrol. This will directly lessen the importation of petrol by 10 percent, said a senior official at the Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC). Considering the quantity of petrol import, which averages at 60,000 kilolitres per annum, this will save the country's foreign currency reserve by about Rs. 300 million at the current import rate, he added. Mixing of ethanol in certain proportion with petrol does not affect the engines of vehicles. Instead, it lessens the exhaust of carbon. Thus it has positive impact on the environment. Given the current types of engines in use in the country, the committee has concluded that the mixing could be done up to the proportion of 24 per cent in the vehicular fuel without any adverse impact on the engine. Internationally, the proportion of such mixing is higher. However, we recommended to the government to adopt it on a lower side to begin with, said the committee member. Meanwhile, the MoICS has constituted a committee headed by the Director General of the Department of Standards and Metrology to work out the technicalities and procedures to implement the decision. The decision on whether to mix the two products at NOC's storage facilities or at the retail supply outlets would be taken after the committee submits its report, said Secretary Pyakurel. The latest decision would also support sugar manufacturers that are going through a rough phase in recent years. Ethanol is a by-product of sugar refinery and is mostly used in fermenting wine and other alcoholic beverages. It is also supplied to paint manufacturers for use as a raw material in enamel production, among others. The decision has opened a new business avenue for sugar producers, said ministry officials. However, experts note that the major challenge for the government would lie in maintaining the proportion of mixture. Being a cheaper product, petrol suppliers may tend to increase the proportion of the ethanol content, they cautioned. Source: The Kathmandu Post, 21 November 2001 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
