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To: skinowski who wrote (486865)	5/12/2012 9:59:34 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793955

Heck yes: < (btw, what is inductive cooking? ... never mind, I googled it and found out. It seems they call it induction. Is it any good?> And seriously cheap. Though I haven't got around to it myself. My brother has a little portable unit and it's great and cost only about US$50 [about]. Energy loss is tiny. The heat is generated right in the food container, such as a pot or frying pan. To be consistent with light bulbs, the government should ban anyone from using fires [gas, coal, wood], and electrical resistance heating in old-fashioned elements which then transfer heat by conduction, radiation and convection to cooking containers. Microwave and induction should be the only permitted cooking methods. Regarding biofuels, it looks as though cellulose should be turned into fuels because cellulose grows right on the surface and can be harvested by the megaton. But getting the right bugs to do the job and the mechanics of the whole process means it's still cheaper to just get combustible carbon out of the ground. No doubt the same sort of problems mean in-situ biological extraction of carbon from shale and oil sands are uneconomic or they would be doing it. In BP Oil, we had a product called Orimulsion, which was water with surfactant pumped into Orinoco heavy crudes in the ground, then pumped out and straight into ships to take to power stations. The water made it liquid enough to transport. No bacteria needed. But it's all dollars and sense and there wasn't enough sense in the method or political sense in Venezuela. Mqurice