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Strategies & Market Trends : Rande Is . . . HOME
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To: Rock_nj who wrote (57056)7/19/2005 11:30:04 AM
From: Mike McFarland  Read Replies (1) of 57584
 
Unfortunately, it takes far too much petrol
to harvest, process, ship, and distribute that
biodiesel to urban yuppies.

It only makes sense to burn biodiesel two places--
near the farms that produce it, and in otherwise
stinky deisel metro buses.

"the will to implement it in a meaningful way"

You probably don't realize just how cheap
regular petrol is--take away taxes and you
are looking at a wildly inexpensive and easy
to obtain source of energy.

The only reasonable way to slow our export of
cash to oil producing nations is to conserve.

...........
Finally--storing solar in batteries? There is
no free lunch. Those batteries will be a huge
burden when their useful life is spent. You can
however generate electricity from solar locally,
store and use it in a low voltage system--travel
trailer style. It is enough light for reading
lights and such for a few hours each evening.

I can't say enough about conservation. Americans
are huge energy pigs. Stop looking for more energy
and simply use less. I will look for a thread for
it, or start one.

I for one will guess that I can cut my energy use
about 25% in the summer half of the year. Imagine
if everybody did that! I'll bet I can find easy
ways to cut energy use in the office as well.
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