Jericho: Into the Woolsey
Check out this article.
I saw a speech from this guy maybe six months ago - sounds like the same speech they are talking about in this article. He was giving it to a group of farmers here in the area - I caught it on the UW's section of On Demand shows from Comcast.
This guy really seems to know his junk. He's not big on hydrogen because it isn't compatible with the current infrastructure. He likes bio-fuels like bio-diesel and ethanol. Primarily he likes these because not much has to change to use them, hydrogen will take a major shift in the infrastructure. Bio-fuels are here now and can be used by more and more new vehicles - bio-diesel can be used on ANY diesel engine without modification.
The terrorism stuff really struck home with me. The above article doesn't drive home the point very well. Apparently this plant in Saudi extracts sulphur from crude. Without that extraction, the crude is useless. There is a total of ONE plant in Saudi, in the entire region, that does this. Take it out and all of us are walking to work, because it will be less expensive to stay home. In the speech I heard, he said from $100 a barrel ... to $300 a barrel!!! Put THAT in your SUV!
For those in Missouri, he was really big on a pair of plants in Missouri that are converting "turkey awful" into bio-fuels. Apparently, one plant processes turkeys. They take the straw, poop and left over bird bits, send it all to the plant up the street and this is turned into a fuel. It's been a while since I've seen this - but I'm pretty sure that's how it went. In my book, garbage to fuel, no matter what the garbage, is a good thing!
I saw a speech from this guy maybe six months ago - sounds like the same speech they are talking about in this article. He was giving it to a group of farmers here in the area - I caught it on the UW's section of On Demand shows from Comcast.
This guy really seems to know his junk. He's not big on hydrogen because it isn't compatible with the current infrastructure. He likes bio-fuels like bio-diesel and ethanol. Primarily he likes these because not much has to change to use them, hydrogen will take a major shift in the infrastructure. Bio-fuels are here now and can be used by more and more new vehicles - bio-diesel can be used on ANY diesel engine without modification.
The terrorism stuff really struck home with me. The above article doesn't drive home the point very well. Apparently this plant in Saudi extracts sulphur from crude. Without that extraction, the crude is useless. There is a total of ONE plant in Saudi, in the entire region, that does this. Take it out and all of us are walking to work, because it will be less expensive to stay home. In the speech I heard, he said from $100 a barrel ... to $300 a barrel!!! Put THAT in your SUV!
For those in Missouri, he was really big on a pair of plants in Missouri that are converting "turkey awful" into bio-fuels. Apparently, one plant processes turkeys. They take the straw, poop and left over bird bits, send it all to the plant up the street and this is turned into a fuel. It's been a while since I've seen this - but I'm pretty sure that's how it went. In my book, garbage to fuel, no matter what the garbage, is a good thing!
posted by Jericho Brown at 3/08/2007 11:44:00 AM
4 Comments:
Cool! I found the speech - he did it somewhere else! It's 45 minutes, but well worth it! Check it out.
If Brazil can convert to 100% domestically produced energy, so can we.
It's a no brainer. Let the poorer parts of the world choke on their own transportation fumes. We are a first world nation - our vehicles should smell like freshly mowed lawns and french fries!
You mean freedom fries.
I'm all for using bio-fuel. Let's see if it ever happens, though. I wonder if my Seabring is compatible?
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