On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Fred Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Stephen Russell <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:54 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 4/21/2011 2:40 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: >> >> So drill drill drill just means more $$$$ to oil companies in profits, >> >> and not lower pump prices to any of us. >> > >> > >> > So let's just continue our dependence on foreign oil instead then, huh? >> > How's that working out for us? :-p >> ----------------- >> >> Grow peanuts and soy beans instead. I'll vote for veggie diesel instead. >> >> You hve to do something different to get any type of change. >> >> > Yeah, but wouldn't that be like the corn-to-fuel fiasco? Using food for > fuel doesn't make much sense, unless it's way more efficient. At least you > can use used vegetable oil. And how well would that scale to be able to > switch from fossil fuel, or even replace a large percentage of our needs? > There has to be something that can work. Anything we can do so we can tell > the Crazy Part of the World to go pound sand and keep their oil has got to > be better for US (and the world) in the long run. Solar and wind currently > can't cut it, and don't appear to be ready within the next 10-20 years. > Whatever new fuel is used will require that long to change the > infrastructure, so it's important that if a switch is made, it's got to be > decided on soon. ------------------------
>From <http://www.turbotraining.com/fliers/MotorArticle.pdf> Diesel began to experiment with internal combustion designs that would not require such precise conditions, would operate on a wider variety of plant-based biomass fuels and would be more efficient in energy conversion. At this time there was a surplus of peanuts because we used them as a nitrogen source for other crops. Today we cannot justify planting them because the price at harvest isn't justified compared with corn/wheat/hay/etc. Corn is a staple yet peanuts are not. Soybeans are used for a variety of products today. The problem with ethanol is the energy used in conversion from starch to alcohol. This don't justify wasting coal to make gas does it? -- Stephen Russell Unified Health Services 60 Germantown Court Suite 220 Cordova, TN 38018 Telephone: 888.510.2667 901.246-0159 cell _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
