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To: Slagle who wrote (843)	9/26/2005 3:09:27 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218621

Share the zeal! Thai MoF has lifted the import duty for ethanol ELMAT:one more satisfied customer!!! An this is on top of half billion gallons exports per year! evworld.com The Ministry of Finance has issued an announcement that the tariff on ethanol will be temporarily exempted under the condition that it must be imported between September 24th and December 31st. Moreover, the quantity of imported ethanol must not be more than 17.82 million litres. ELMAT: This is only the head going inside: and the 'thing' has no shoulder! Deputy Minister of Finance CHAIYOT SASOMSUB said the tariff exemption for ethyl alcohol, which has an alcohol content exceeding 99.50 percent, must only be used for gasohol production. The gasohol consumption in January this year was only 0.28 million litres. Following the government’s campaign of promoting gasohol 95, sales of gasohol used by motorists last month significantly increased to 2.27 million litres. The Ministry of Energy has fixed the gasohol retail price at 1.50 bath pre litre, which is less than benzene 95. This move is an attempt to encourage people to utilize more alternative fuel.

To: Slagle who wrote (843)	9/26/2005 5:09:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218621

<The main trouble with anything solar is that even at noon solar radiation is only around 250 W per square foot. And on the vast scale that we (and Brazil too) gobbles up the energy this is just so insignificant. > 10 feet by 10 feet would be 25 kilowatts. Converting only 10% of that would be a useful amount of energy at 2.5 kw. A desert 100km x 100km would be 10,000 km2 = 10,000,000,000 m2. 10bn x 2.5kw = 20bn kilowatts, [or 20 million megawatts]. At 5c per kilowatt hour that's a street price of $1 bn per hour. That's serious money. Australia and parts of the USA, not to mention the Sahara and lots of other places, have a LOT of desert doing nothing except getting hot. Mqurice