I presume biofuels are from biological sources. Renewable synfuels are something else. They might be mixed (methanol with ?).
If you want to learn more about wind power, try Renewable Energy Comes of Age by Paul Gipe Wiley, 1995 http://wind-works.org http://www.windpower.dk http://www.german-renewable-energy.com http://www.enercon.de http://www.awea.org A broad treatment of renewable energy: Renewable energy by Bent Sorenson Academic Press, 2nd edition 1992 Innovative solar http://www.shec-labs.com Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Wed, 4 May 2005, Michael Redler wrote: > > Whenever we talk about biofuels, we sometimes bring other alternative energy > technologies into the fold. For example, I remember discussing (maybe here, > I'm not sure) the use of heliostats as a possible heat source for > distillation. However, the use of windmills as a source of mechanical or > electrical energy has (for me) stayed in the background. I am not > knowledgeable at all in the commercial availability of windmills and the > level of sophistication of the ones most commonly sold. Can anyone help me on > this? > > I'm also curious about something. I've been visiting JTF and reading the > sections on appropriate technology. Do you think that alternative, renewable > energy for the creation of biofuels merits a discussion as a kind of > appropriate technology? Does the level of complexity of these technologies > (like windmills, solar, etc.) cause the idea to diverge from the original > definition if they incorporate modern electronics (for example)? _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
