Dear Andrew Hoppin, It sounds interesting.
I prefer ther use of straight plant oil (unmodified) instead of biodiesel. But anyway you need a lot of oil. And I think the oil from perennial plants give a higher net yield. So I am promoting the plant Jatropha curcas, or phisic nut, a shrub which grows in tropical or subtropical regions with more than 600 mm of rainfall. The oil you can use directly in modified diesel engines, or as bio-diesel. In the bio-diesel case you also need big amounts of alcohol (methanol ar aethanol), and you will end up in a centralised technology (economy šf scale). See the website explaining "The Jatropha System" at www.jatropha.org Kind regards Reinhard Henning "Andrew Hoppin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > New to this list, and extremely impressed with the lucid, creative, and > altruistic ideas being generated and shared. Way to go! > > I'm on board with all the compelling environmental motivations for using > biodiesel, but to be honest what drove me here (after years of working as an > environmental scientist in other realms and being only casually interested > in energy), was the geopolitics of fossil fuels... The prospect of making > fossil fuels obsolete before they become truly in short supply I believe > could spare the world a lot of bloodshed, and could help instill confidence > that our respective governments are executing their foreign policy on the > basis of reasons other than jousting for control of limited energy reserves. > The idea of contributing to efforts to this end greatly inspires me. > > So, with that inspiration, I've decided to take on organizing a > community-driven project of modest scope but dramatic potential that will > contribute in direct or indirect ways to events or actions that reduce the > dependence of industrialized nations on fossil fuels. Outreach efforts > about biodiesel seem to me like they could be a possible great choice > (petitioning fast-food chains to make their waste available? getting New > York City government vehicle fleets to use biodiesel?), but you on this list > know far more than I about what specific projects could make a difference, > and I respectfully and eagerly await your input. > > Andrew Hoppin > N Space Labs, Inc. > Vizualize Your Business > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 212.226.4550 (office) > 646.221.5602 (mobile) > 158 Lafayette St. 2nd Floor > NY, NY 10013 > > > -- bagani GbR, Reinhard Henning, Rothkreuz 11, D-88138 Weissensberg, Germany Tel: ++49 8389 984129, Fax: 984128, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet: www.bagani.de ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Sell a Home for Top $ http://us.click.yahoo.com/RrPZMC/jTmEAA/MVfIAA/9bTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/
