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    • Wed Aug 27th 12:56 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil
      You want to see where billions of your tax dollars go? Payments to all kinds of farmers to do NOTHING!!

      farm.ewg.org/farm/dp_a...
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    • Wed Aug 27th 12:35 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil
      Lies, lies, lies; and misconceptions galore.

      Regardless of the fuel, the ICE is only 30% efficient. We throw away 70% of the energy. Only 5 Quads of useful energy come from the 40 Quads of crude (5 Quads go to PLASTICS, ETC.; THAT MEANS ONLY 1/7 OR <15% IS REALLY USEFUL).

      So the answer is the burner* with waste heat recovery* that captures 90% of the energy* and makes it useful energy (as electricity*).

      Immediately, then, we've reduced our consumption to 7 mb/d from 21 mb/d of fuel. How's that for reducing crude (import and local)?

      Now that 1.5 mb/d biofuel looks pretty significant, doesn't it. And if we were to take the rest of the dryland farming community that gets paid to do NOTHING, and we put celulosic switchgrass, et.al., and canola where possible, etc., we can reach the 7 mb/d a lot easier than going for 21 mb/d which the roadblockers use as negatives, lies, etc.

      *So here we go again: A biofuel injected burner encapsulated with solid-state waste heat direct conversion to electricity devices powering a ChorusMotor and the only on-board energy storage device is the GRASS TANK; unlimited range; power of the Tesla; refuel at existing service stations with whatever % of biodiesel to ethanol desired. No drill, drill, drill (Houston) and no ICE, transmission (Detroit) and no capacitor, motive power battery, flywheel, etc (Storage).
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    • Thu Aug 21st 21:23 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Will GM's Volt Change History?
      Ditto for you, Jim.
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    • Thu Aug 21st 21:20 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Will GM's Volt Change History?
      Woodsey - hate to scare you, but you maybe should have opted for a lump sum. No anti-GM sentiment from me; just anti-blindness.

      I just can't see why (well, actually I can), a biofuel-injected burner encased with waste heat conversion devices powering an electric motor, directly, with no engine, no transmission, no energy storage device, unlimted range (limited by the next biofuel fueling station), power of the Telsa, where the electric motor, injected burner and waste heat recovery stuff (with 3x the effeciency of the ICE system and/or 1/3 the hydrocarbon emissions, etc.), which will certainly be market priced, does not get a response from you. That's the kind of GM blindness, and of many others, that exists. That's bothersome. Should be to others as well.
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    • Thu Aug 21st 16:15 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Will GM's Volt Change History?
      As for battery-electric rubber tired vehicles of any sort (except for a $50 12v diehard to ignite a biofuel injector), who needs them, once we have the above.

      And it would be absolutedly foolish to continue mfg'g ICE's, Transmissions, etc. and of course any drilling or mining of any hydrocarbons.

      Prepare for the change(s).
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    • Thu Aug 21st 15:30 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Will GM's Volt Change History?
      And furthermore, with the additional claim that I'm unaffiliated short of being a stockholder here and there, as many of you are, with your mantras, below is more tough stuff for Detroit, et.al. and Houston:

      Aug 18 11:57 AM

      Cheer Picken's on folks.

      Burning NG in transportation is the first practical step to REPLACING oil/gasoline.

      Once there, it's an easy step to REPLACE NG (and leave it stored in the ground) by using above-ground grown and renewable biofuels.

      Hopefully, long before that we will have fully developed and implemented the burning of fuels in injected containers (not engines; no moving parts!) and are capturing all the heat (90+% of original energy) with burner-encapsulated direct-coversion-to-el... state-devices powering hybrids with the only on-board stored energy being the biofuel tank capable of being filled at all the existing fueling stations that currently exist.

      Understand, please, that by capturing all the waste heat mentioned above, we will actually need only 1/3 of the existing service station pumps - that's because we currently throw away 70% of the energy, or 70% of all the gallons we pump, AS WASTE HEAT.

      WE WILL NEED TO PROCESS, TRANSPORT, DELIVER, PUMP, CONSUME and grow ONLY 1/3 OF THE 20 MILLION GALLONS A DAY.

      Now chew on that.

      FACTOR THAT INTO THE EQUATIONS FOLKS. THAT ALSO MEANS WE NEED TO GROW ONLY 1/3 OF THE BIOFUELS THAT MOST FEARMONGERS SAY WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH LAND OR FARMERS, ETC.

      nakedjaybird
      Aug 18 12:03 PM

      The second practical step in transportaton is electrifying the railroads and getting rid of the diesel consumed there.

      The third practical step in transportation is electrifying the inter/intrastates with electric ferries for cargo and people, and if need be, hybrids.


      nakedjaybird
      Aug 18 12:17 PM

      As for Power Generation: Go Boone! Get all that wind installed. And all the solar PV and thermal you can do.

      We only need some 8 Quads of electric to replace all the coal, gas and oil generated electricity, to leave the hydrocarbons in the ground; and we will still use most of the 12 Quad electrical distribution system we alreay have.

      No more wasting of 70% of the energy from oil, gas, coal, etc.

      Just be using the free, readily available, forever solar and wind........at whatever efficiency we can capture it, with no waste.


      nakedjaybird
      Aug 18 01:01 PM

      And for the corn and commoditiy fearmongers, the above ground crops will be cellosic - corn stocks maybe, but not the kernals; try switchgrass.

      And that on dryland currently in CRP programs where we pay farmers to DO NOTHING. That is a great opportunity to readjust subsidies (tax dollar spending!), isn't it.

      In fact, if we give the farmers all the subsidies, tax breaks, research dollars, etc., we give from Detroit to Houston, and the resgt of DC handouts, all those folks would become dirt farmers. Yes, we would retrain them into doing real work - it's the fair thing!!
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    • Thu Aug 21st 15:25 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Will GM's Volt Change History?
      Enough! The only onboard stored energy device on the hybrid of the future will be a GRASS TANK supplying a biofuel injected burner encapsulated with solid state heat recovery devices powering a Chorusmotor, directly.
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    • Tue Aug 19th 22:38 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Events in Russia Could Push U.S. Toward a Clearer Energy Policy
      that's bails......
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    • Tue Aug 19th 22:38 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Events in Russia Could Push U.S. Toward a Clearer Energy Policy
      And furthermore, if one concerns himself with all the money oil, gas, coal, industries, etc., have as assets on the books; well, duh; I make poor investments all the time; and no one bales me out.
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    • Tue Aug 19th 21:03 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Events in Russia Could Push U.S. Toward a Clearer Energy Policy
      Thinkbig - when I suggest the GRASS TANK HYBRID WITH SS-WHRe using a biofuel injector into a container with no moving parts, directly feeding the electric motor without engine, transmission, rearend, storage device, while using nearly 100% of the energy in the fuel (which immediately yields a 70% REDUCTION IN HYDROCARBONS), has to absolutely scare the hell out of Detroit to Houston and all the industries associated with exploration, drilling, mining, extraction, remediation, enriornmental, regulation, engines, transmissions, etc. All the employed folks will have to line up behind the biofuel industry and the electrify-the-new-Amer... industries - as the farmers are already equipped to farm more land and get a different kind of payment for it. Oh Happy Days......
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    • Tue Aug 19th 20:41 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Events in Russia Could Push U.S. Toward a Clearer Energy Policy
      And the GRASS TANK HYBRID engine will not be an engine! It will be a CAN; A CONTAINER; WITH NO MOVING PARTS; WITH A BIOFUEL INJECTOR; ENCAPSULATED WITH SOILD STATE DEVICES TO CONVERT WASTE HEAT DIRECTLY TO ELECTRICITY AS DEMANDED BY THE ELECTRIC MOTOR (THE 'gas pedal").
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    • Tue Aug 19th 20:36 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Events in Russia Could Push U.S. Toward a Clearer Energy Policy
      Think big; anything to get Pelosi out of office.

      We might as well feed Boone who will do something worthwhile vis-a-vis feeding all the others...................

      We don't need to do the natural gas vehicles, except it will be the transition away from oil/gasoline, while we go warps-speed for the alternatives hybrids with solid state waste heat recovery to electric (SS-WHRe)

      And biofuel hybrids with solid-state direct coversion of waste heat to electric drives will be the final answer.

      The onboard storage device will be a GRASS TANK! Filled at the pumps the way we do gasoline/diesel/ethano... today. No battery, no H2, no LPG or CNG, no liquifaction/gasificat... of coal (add effort and energy to then burn them?? = duh!).

      Careful who you talk to in DC, they may do what you ask.

      Think bigger...................
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    • Tue Aug 19th 15:59 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Events in Russia Could Push U.S. Toward a Clearer Energy Policy
      Go Boone!

      AndI I like the the concept "GRASS TANKS".

      Along with "ELECTRIFIED RAILS".

      And "ELECTRIFIED INTER/INTRASTATE FERRIES".

      "BULK ELECTRIC STORAGE".

      They all fit so well with SOALR AND WIND FARMS.

      And make so much more sense than "DRILL, DRILL, DRILL" - DUH!!!

      And beyond "BURN, BURN, BURN".

      And I'm not a greenie.....

      All anyone has to do is look at France (their nucs), Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Brazil, ETC., for energy LEADERSHIP that leads to INDEPENDENCE; or we can continue to accept our lack of LEADERSHIP (and be DEPENDENT ON BURING, BURNING, BURNING OIL, GAS, DIESEL, COAL AND NG, IN THE ICE).
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    • Tue Aug 19th 13:44 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Events in Russia Could Push U.S. Toward a Clearer Energy Policy
      Mayabe even a Macarthur.
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    • Tue Aug 19th 13:38 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Events in Russia Could Push U.S. Toward a Clearer Energy Policy
      Act like a Russian (but be right).
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