Re: [Biofuel] US Montana’s energy future

2005-10-30 Thread JJJN
Hi MH, I do like the excerpt “Montana does not have to become a national sacrifice area for a faulty federal energy policy.” I guess when Americans are hooked like winos on cheap fuel the fastest way to get them a fix is the stance most politico's take. Coal is a loser. Gov. Schweitzer

Re: [Biofuel] US Montana’s energy future

2005-10-30 Thread Mike Weaver
Only quibble with that is that we don't really have an energy policy. It's just consume consume consume, and damn the cost. JJJN wrote: Hi MH, I do like the excerpt “Montana does not have to become a national sacrifice area for a faulty federal energy policy.” I guess when

Re: [Biofuel] US Montana’s energy future

2005-10-30 Thread JJJN
OK Mike, I went to, http://www.whitehouse.gov/energy/ and it says we do have a policy National Energy Policy to be exact, but you must be referring to hopelessly pathetic message it contains, if not that then perhaps the cryptic coded quote by our great leader that we can still have

Re: [Biofuel] US Montana’s energy future

2005-10-30 Thread Keith Addison
OK Mike, I went to, http://www.whitehouse.gov/energy/ and it says we do have a policy National Energy Policy to be exact, but you must be referring to hopelessly pathetic message it contains, if not that then perhaps the cryptic coded quote by our great leader that we can still have

Re: Montana's energy future - was [Biofuel] US Montana’s energy future

2005-10-30 Thread Keith Addison
Hi MH, I do like the excerpt But I hate the subject title, and it sure won't make archives searches any more chic either. US =?windows-1252?Q? ??? (Well, maybe it does, who knows these days anyway.) I think it's these little “ and ” thingies that do it, yuk. Please set emailer defaults to

Re: [Biofuel] US Montana’s energy future

2005-10-28 Thread David Miller
MH wrote: Sounds like a great conference! This paragraph caught my attention: A second coal story came out of Great Falls, where the City Council voted 4-1 to spend $2 million of that city’s funds on “preparations” for the proposed 250 megawatt Highwood coal-burning power plant east of the

Re: [Biofuel] US Montana’s energy future

2005-10-28 Thread Zeke Yewdall
Cooling. Any thermal power plant rejects roughly 60 - 70% of the energy from burning fuel as waste heat. Some plants use big ponds that just sit there and give off heat (evaporating in the process), and some use cooling towers (that's what the giant concrete things are on nuclear power plants,