Posts Tagged ‘ Alternative Fuels ’

Run it on Algae

Run it on Algae

As we fill our tanks with ever-more-expensive gas and diesel, our minds turn to alternative fuels. Researchers in Minnesota hope to create bio-diesel from algae. The project would use wastewater from the metro area treatment plant to feed the algae. (Read More . . .) $5 a gallon is too much, but expect that by labor day 2008. That is right folks! $5.00 a gallon, which means even a car like ours with 66.7 mpg highway and 48.5 mpg city driving will cost us 10 – 12 cents a miles (diesel). I can’t image what it cost for a...

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Alternative Lifestyle

Alternative Lifestyle

Gas prices are getting higher, but that is in par with the rest of the world. Alternative fuels have been on the back burner way too long. I actually worked (1 year for the resume) with a ‘Hill’ lobby information mediation group back in ’96. California has always been on the cusp of alterative fuels, and the rest of the Nation has only known what is “in their back yard” and not willing to purchase outside the norms. Now, this “keep up the Jones” has come to bite our royal arses. Here is the big problem, we are a...

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