At 07:19 AM Thursday 5/15/2008, Alberto Monteiro wrote: >Dan M. wrote: > > > > It makes sense, that if you take 30% of the supply off the market, > > prices will rise substantially. > > > > Brazil is doing similar things with sugar cane ethanol. > > >The difference is that Brazil begun the sugar cane program decades >ago. At that time, there was also an option to try a biodiesel >program, but it was considered economically (and, probably, >politically - we were under a relatively totalitarian dictatorship >then) inviable.
On the local news tonight they had a story about a demonstration program from one of the state universities to demonstrate the production of electricity from wood chip waste. The apparatus is set up in a trailer so they can take it to different places to demonstrate it. According to the story the system could produce enough electricity to run three or four typical houses for a day. They were talking about how the system could also produce gas to power a vehicle . . . what I wondered which was never addressed during the news piece was whether the apparatus in the trailer could produce enough fuel to fuel the truck hauling the trailer around the state . . . . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
