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Xavier_Onassis

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Re: Ethanol Craze
« Reply #30 on: December 04, 2007, 03:56:31 PM »
bagasse is the heat source but what about the machines ?

Any machine that can run on petroleum can run on ethanol, natural gas or propane. Electrical engines can run on elkectricity generated in a large number of ways.
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Re: Ethanol Craze
« Reply #31 on: December 04, 2007, 04:30:13 PM »
true
but are any of them doing this now?
at the moment the rate of return mightbe very low to use those resources.
meaning. if you completely cutoff petrol from production .
you`ll might not be able to produce viable amount of feul for a profit.
if any at all

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Re: Ethanol Craze
« Reply #32 on: December 04, 2007, 07:08:46 PM »
true
but are any of them doing this now?
at the moment the rate of return mightbe very low to use those resources.
meaning. if you completely cutoff petrol from production .
you`ll might not be able to produce viable amount of feul for a profit.
if any at all


It is not impossible we could be in that situation sometime in the future.

Waht will we do if forced to give up oil?

It is optional right now , when will there be no choice?

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Re: Ethanol Craze
« Reply #33 on: December 04, 2007, 08:33:00 PM »
maybe we need like a research town
located in a isolated area to testbed all these alternatives.
it would help encounter most problems

like bio-sphere.
but I think bio-sphere failed
those folks were starving

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Re: Ethanol Craze
« Reply #35 on: December 08, 2007, 09:55:40 AM »
maybe we need like a research town
located in a isolated area to testbed all these alternatives.
it would help encounter most problems

like bio-sphere.
but I think bio-sphere failed
those folks were starving

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Re: Ethanol Craze
« Reply #36 on: December 08, 2007, 10:54:52 AM »
lol
and I watch that show
but those those folks use home fusion reactors
and they finally have a homeA.I, that doesn`t kill
but it`s a close one,Sarah came close a few times.
and having Olivia d`abo visit is always a plus.
She just gets better looking