See also: http://www.globalleadnet.org/advocacy/initiatives/nation.cfm The Secret History of Lead, Jamie Lincoln Kitman / The Nation 20mar00
http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/papers/fuel.html Henry Ford, Charles Kettering and "The Fuel of the Future" in press, Society of Automotive Historians, 1998 Copyright Bill Kovarik, 1998 by Bill Kovarik, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Media Studies Radford University Radford, Va. 24142 Abstract The fuel of the future, according to inventor Henry Ford and General Motors' scientist Charles F. Kettering, was ethyl alcohol made from farm products and cellulosic materials. Henry Ford's outright support culminated with the the Dearborn, Mich. "Chemurgy" conferences in the 1930s. Little is known about Kettering's interest in ethyl alcohol fuel and how it fit into G.M.'s long term strategy. Moreover, aside from the Chemurgy conferences and a brief period of commercial alcohol-gasoline sales in the Midwest during the 1930s, very little is known about the technological, economic and political context of alcohol fuels use. This paper examines that context, including the competition between lamp fuels in the 19th century; the scientific studies about alcohol as a fuel in the early 20th century; the development of "ethyl" leaded gasoline as a bridge to the "fuel of the future" in the 1920s; the worldwide use of alcohol - gasoline blends in the 1920s and 30s; and the eventual emergence of the farm "Chemurgy" movement and its support for alcohol fuel in the 1930s. [more] Long article - 21,000 words, good read. Keith Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/
