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DIRECT TO ETHANOL

GREENBACKS: Even in hot, sunny places like Florida, there are still seasons when production slows down due to weather.
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How It Works   
The clear plastic bags used in the direct-to-ethanol technology look like giant hanging file folders. Each bag is 10 feet by four feet, 2 inches deep and has capacity of 50 liters. The bag is filled with saltwater, which is inoculated with algae culture. All green plants, including algae, take in water and CO2 from the atmosphere, and combine those elements as a precursor to sugar, which, with Algenol’s two-step direct-to-ethanol process, is immediately converted to ethanol. In the end, 85 percent of the carbon consumed produces ethanol and the remaining 15 percent is spent algae.

When that process is complete, a simple centrifuge is used for separation. Spent algae goes one way and liquid goes another. Next comes a two-step ethanol purification process, the first of which is patented by Algenol and the second is no different than the method used by the corn-ethanol industry, he adds. The remaining biomass, or spent algae, is turned into green crude in a six-minute process, which can potentially be sent to a refinery to produce mostly gasoline or diesel and some jet fuel. The four fuels can be produced for about $1.30 a gallon each, the company says.

ARTICLE:

A Florida algae-to-ethanol operation is poised to go commercial scale

Author: Holly Jessen
Managing Editor, Ethanol Producer Magazine
701-738-4946 
hjessen@bbiinternational.com

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We need as many ways to produce fuels as possible.

We should be very happy with each new one that happens.

Remember there are already many ways to produce Hydrogen & Ethanol.

CORN STOVER

PART OF PLANT WE DON'T EAT

ETHANOL
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ROOMBA FOR THE CORNFIELD

YOU GUYS SHOULD START CHECKING OUT ROBOTS FOR THE CORNFIELD

OVER 4,200 THINGS ARE MADE FROM CORN. PARTIAL LIST

ANOTHER LIST OF CORN PRODUCTS.

10% of Corn goes for human consumption.

Spike in price would more likely have to do with rain / drought.

HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP is made from DAH....

-- Side Note
   FRUCTOSE (Corn) is NOT the BAD sugar.

   SUCROSE (Cane Sugar) is the BAD sugar.
       - more complex for body to deal with

      -more stuff from people with agendas

-- I learned this stuff when I was on a semi-health kick back in 1980ish.
      I used to buy FRUCTOSE in little packets from the health food store.
          guess why.

Hey gang.

ETHANOL is made from the NON-GRAIN part of the corn plant that WE DON'T EAT.

ETHANOL would be in competition with CATTLE FEED.

There are over 4,000 products that have corn in them, including PAPER, BEEF, PORK, CHICKEN, and a bunch more stuff.

Human food is just one of the things corn is used for.

ETHANOL can be made from almost any plant.

There are plants that we don't eat (like grasses) that can be used to make ETHANOL too.

Brasil is BIG on ETHANOL, they use a lot of SUGAR CANE to make theirs.

Most people you read or hear talking about ETHANOL ill-effecting our HUMAN food supply, usually will be a PRO-FOSSIL FUEL/ANTI-ETHANOL guy for whatever reason.

Jay Leno was just talking down ETHANOL after years of talking it UP.

WHAT UP?

We have been breathing foul dirty air now for 100 years.

It's better to have something going on as opposed to NOTHING!


GO "CORN STOVER"

New Kansas Ethanol Plant Turning Crop Residue Into Fuel

1. 1. Corn stover consists of the leaves and stalks of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) plants left in a field after harvest and consists of the residue: stalk; the leaf, husk, and cob remaining in the field following the harvest of cereal grain.” Stover makes up about half of the yield of a crop and is similar to straw.

   2. Corn stover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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      Biomass ethanol is ``ethanol made from non-grain plant materials known as biomass.''Biomass ethanol would use the corn stover from the corn crop produced in areas around ethanol plants. Wikipedia

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      Maize stover, together with other lignocellulosic biomass, provides about the potential 1.3 billion tons of raw materials that could produce future fuel in the next 50 years.Wikipedia

      Explore: Lignocellulosic biomass

      Corn stover, Panicum virgatum (switchgrass), Miscanthus grass species, wood chips and the byproducts of lawn and tree maintenance are some of the more popularcellulosic materials for ethanol production. Wikipedia

      Explore: Panicum virgatum, Cellulosic ethanol

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   Corn stover consists of the leaves and stalks of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) plants left in a field after harvest and consists of the residue: stalk; the leaf, husk, and cob remaining in the field following the harvest of cereal grain.” Stover makes up about half of the yield of a crop and is similar to straw.

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TAKING AWAY ETHANOL FUEL

Dianne Feinstien & Pat Toomey have introduced a bill to take the mandated ETHANOL out of GASOLINE.

BAD MOVE.

We should be upping the about of ETHANOL in the mix.
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Start paying attention to the SMELL OF OUR AIR.
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It has been demonized for messing with the CORN market.

Most any plant can be used to make ETHANOL.

If we don't want to mess with American Corn Market, we can use other plants to make it, or buy it from other countries,

Brasil, Norway use it now.

The Washington politicians are not working in our best interest on this issue.

BIG DIRTY DOLLARS ARE AT WORK HERE.
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What I really don't like is them playing on peoples ignorance.

Ignorance does not mean you are stupid, it just means you don't know.

Even little microbes can make ETHANOL.

It would have been a good intermediate fuel until we can do H2 & EV.

ETHANOL FUEL BY COUNTRY

ARNIE & LUTZ DO H2

Then governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Then CEO of GM Bob Lutz, fill up the H2H Hummer with H2.
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MUST DO:

I15 to VEGAS.

I think that would be HUGE ...
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HEY!

How about mobile units that deliver H2 to the customer.

This would:

• HELP SOMEONE STRANDED
• CATER TO THE WELL-TO-DO

This unit could provide a wide variety of services and products for sale.

In California the list could be endless.

ALSO:
THERE NEEDS TO BE H2 APPS!!!
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H2H@LA AUTO SHOW

CA TO SPEND $20M ON HYDROGEN HIGHWAY
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GO ROBERT LUTZ

GO ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

POWER GENERATED FROM WATER PIPE

Why is this worth talking about.

Well Lucid Energy / water company is generating electricity from something that was not being used to generate electricity before.

This is NOT usually called "ENERGY HARVESTING", but it is close.

Energy Harvesting is getting little bits (or big bits) of energy from sources normally not used for that purpose.

NOW.

If we KEEP DOING THIS, continuing to develop technologies that get power from places that were ignored before, the total amount of energy from ENERGY HARVESTING will eventually be enough to take over from our usual sources like "THE GRID," or "BATTERIES."

ALSO,

I can see a future where we develop POWER CONSUMING devices that use very little power, so we may move to a society where stuff is sort of "POWERED" by nothing.

SORT OF.

Things that could be powered by "NOTHING:

• CELL PHONES
• LIGHTS
• TV'S
• RADIO'S
• COMPUTERS

Power generating devices whose extra power is being "THROWN AWAY:"

• CAR ENGINES (HEAT)
• CAR WHEELS
• CAR WIND (MERCEDES DOES w PAINT)
• CAR SOLAR
• RADIO WAVES
• ALL OTHER STUFF FLOATING THRU THE AIR
• BICYCLES
• VIBRATIONS
• PUSH BUTTONS
• AIR FLOW
• AMBIENT LIGHT
• NOISE
• HEEL STRIKE
• TEMPERATURE VARIATION

All of these sources of power usually all go untapped.

I'll bet right now somebody out  there has a good sounding car stereo that only uses about 10 watts.

GO "ENERGY HARVESTING SOURCES"

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LUCID ENERGY
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MERCEDES HARVEST'S SOLAR AND WIND POWER

ALL GAS SHOULD NOW BE E85 OR BETTER

All vehicles sold in the US as gasoline powered vehicles should be able to use any mix of gasoline and ethanol.

NOW AND FOREVER.

In the article below that author talks solely about American CORN crops as the sole source for ETHANOL.

ETHANOL can be made from a wide variety of sources, including CANE SUGAR and many others.

BRASIL uses CANE SUGAR to make their ETHANOL.

AFRICAN countries use the CASSAVA (Tapioca) PLANT to make ETHANOL.

Grapes, Grains, Potatoes, Molasses, Horseradish, Sugar Beets, Fruits, Oats, etc....

Cow waste ... yep!

All kinds of dying, rotting things...

We can buy the ETHANOL on the global marketplace like we do oil.

We can buy the source materials  from the global marketplace and make SOME OF IT ourselves.

The source materials can be from a large variety of plants and algae.

The State of Wisconsin exports ETHANOL to CANADA.
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Saying that vehicles today cannot run on ETHANOL is not correct.
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The ETHANOL part of the mix should NOT BE TAXED or REVERSE TAXED to make it a better deal than GASOLINE.

The more the ETHANOL the cheaper the FUEL.

We should do this until H2 and pure ELECTRIC vehicles are well established.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE THAT TOUCHED ONE OF MY HOT BUTTONS
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The CASSAVA (Tapioca)plant is used in other parts of the world to produce, ETHANOL.

From the left overs they make livestock feed and bricks for houses.

CASSAVA (Tapioca) PLANT
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TAPIOCA is the starch from the root of the CASSAVA plant.

ETHANOL PRODUCER MAGAZINE

H2 VIA POST OFFICE

HEY.

GOT AN IDEA.

Looks like it has already been run, but...

How about have the Post Office start using Hydrogen powered vehicles.

AND...

The infrastructure to support it would not be behind P.O. fences, it would be a venue that can be open to the public or a privately run operation.

HEY.....

GM FUEL CELL VEHICLES FOR POST OFFICE

ETHANOL CONFERENCE

NATIONAL ETHANOL CONFERENCE .COM

GO NATIONAL ETHANOL CONFERENCE

TOYOTA OFFERS FREE H2 PATIENTS

Toyota announcement video.

Toyota has announced that it is granting royalty free use of 5,680 of it's Hydrogen fuel cell related patients.

300 related to high pressure Hydrogen Fuel Tanks.

70 related to Hydrogen Stations.

MOTORING

IFL SCIENCE

MIRAI

It is out there that there is some competition between electric, hydrogen fuel cell and other vehicles.

Like who / which will win?

No. It is not like that at all.

We need to embrace a variety of vehicle types starting now and going into the future FOREVER.

"THEY" would like us to buy into ONLY ONE TYPE so that "THEY" can more easily control things.

DON'T DO IT.

I think someone should design and produce a drive train that has:

• ELECTRIC MOTORS FOR 4 WHEELS
• BATTERY(S) OPTION
• ULTRACAP OPTION
• GAS TURBINE ENGINE OPTION
• SMALL PISTON OPTION
• H2 FUEL CELL OPTION
• H2 FUEL OPTION
• ETHANOL / LIQUID FUEL OPTION

PLUG AND PLAY.

CONFIGURE AS U PLEASE

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CAN HYDROGEN BEAT TESLA ?

PS

Haven't researched it yet, but I don't see a pure battery solution dominating until you can run your heater / defroster, air conditioning, lights, mega stereo, etc all at once over a medium distance without worrying about running out of juice.

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HYDROGEN VECHICLE

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H2 AUTOS PLAYLIST

H2 PLAYLIST

TOYOTA MIRAI

CAN POWER YOUR HOUSE FOR A WEEK

300 MILE RANGE

REFUELED IN 5 MINUTES

NO POLLUTION

EMITS ONLY WATER VAPOR

HYDROGEN CAN BE MADE FROM ALMOST ANYTHING

TOYOTA MIRAI

DEFINE TOYOTA MIRAI

VOLKSWAGEN GOLF & PASSAT

BMW 3I

AUDI FUEL CELL VEHICLE

HYUNDAI TUSCAN FUEL CELL VEHICLE

HONDA FCX CLARITY

MERCEDES BENZ FUEL CELL

HYDROGEN IS SAFE

ETHANOL PLANT

CASSAVA PLANT.

This plant is used all over the world as both food and to produce ETHANOL.

It can grow in dry environments.

The root part is used to create things like ETHANOL and TAPIOCA pudding.

For those of you worried about ETHANOL production ill-effecting the CORN growing business, fear NOT as basically any rotting plant can produce alcohol.

DEFINE CASSAVA

GO CASSAVA

CASSAVA  ETHANOL PRODUCTION

CASSAVA GROWING BUSINESS

CASSAVA  ETHANOL

CASSAVA ETHANOL IMAGES

CASSAVA ETHANOL VIDEOS

BENZ PAINT MAKES H2 & ELECTRICITY

YEP.

The paint on this car generates both electricity and hydrogen for use in the vehicle

Has both electric and hydrogen power.

Will "HARVEST" energy from brakes and shock absorbers.

Will probably NEVER be made....of course....
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I like all the things they are doing but I would also include use of

1. ULTRA CAPACITORS
2. GAS TURBINE ENGINE
3. 4 WHEEL ELECTRIC MOTORS   

Ultracapacitors cannot hold as much juice as batteries, but they will store all they can IMMEDIATELY and dispense it immediately.

A Gas Turbine Engine is like a small jet engine. Uses a fan, not pistons. Will more readily burn almost anything that CAN BURN.

Big Biz is scared to death of the Gas Turbine Engine. Give us too many options.

Has successfully scared every car maker into NOT GOING INTO PRODUCTION with it.

BENZ CAR ARTICLE

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/191336-mercedes-hydrogen-electric-hybrid-harvests-solar-wind-energy-with-its-paint-job

FLEXI-UNIT HYBRID

I read that some automakers are going to move to HYDROGEN and away from pure electric for a while.

I do not have an accurate picture for now so this one is just of a vanilla hybrid but...

I am thinking why not have a central control box that can accept a variety of devices to provide and store energy for use in the vesicle.

Vehicle would have electric motors IN all 4 wheels.

Would accept/store/direct power from/to:

• HYDROGEN FUEL CELL
• HI-TECH BATTERY
• ULTRA-CAPACITORS
• GAS TURBINE ENGINE w/Alternator (CAN BURN ANYTHING)
• GAS ENGINE w/Alternator
• DIESEL ENGINE w/Alternator

Could use any or all of the above at the same time

Would ALWAYS accept electrical input from plug-in source.

TURBINE and PISTON engines may burn HYDROGEN as fuel.

Up-gradable to accept ANY new devices that generate or store energy.

Will have appropriate graphic soon.

FUEL@HOME

Hydrogen refuel station unveiled in 2008

YOU CAN FUEL YOUR VEHICLE AT HOME !!!

HYDROGEN

OR

ELECTRICITY

REMEMBER !!!

THERE DOES NOT NEED TO BE AN INFRASTRUCTURE OF HYDROGEN ONLY FUELING FACILITIES.

THERE IS NO REASON AN EXISTING FUELING FACILITY CANNOT ALSO HAVE A HYDROGEN OR ELECTRIC REFUELING AREA AS WELL.

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YES, I AM AWARE MOST PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD ONE OF THESE.

BUT SOME CAN TO GET US STARTED.
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CAR COMPANIES OR CAR RETAILERS COULD INCLUDE A HOME HYDROGEN CHARGING STATION WITH PURCHASE OF THE CAR.
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EXISTING GAS STATIONS COULD HAVE A HYDROGEN REFILL AREA.
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SOME COMPANIES COULD ARRANGE FOR THEIR FLEET VEHICLES TO BE HYDROGEN POWERED.
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THE GOVERNMENT, POST OFFICE FOR ONE.
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EVEN IF "THEY" TRY TO PULL THE "SAFETY" OR "MUST BE REGULATED" STUFF, YOU COULD STILL CREATE A "CO-OP" OR HAVE A PERSON ON YOUR "BLOCK" DESIGNATED AS THE PERSON IN CHARGE OF THE "CO-OP" OR "BLOCK" FILLING STATION.
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THE "FUEL" WILL BE CREATED ON SITE,
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1 CUP OF GASOLINE = 16 STICKS OF DYNAMITE

WHICH IS SAFER?
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HOME FUELING STATION

GO HYDROGEN FUEL AT HOME

HYDROGEN HOUSE PROJECT

HONDA HYDROGEN HOUSE / VEHICLE

DIRTY FUEL

DIRTY FUEL = DIRTY EXHAUST

All the time I lived in Detroit, knowing that a *REAL* Detroit Auto Guy would not mince words when it came to issues critical to the well being of the Detroit Auto Business,  wondered why they NEVER PUBLICLY COMPLAINED about the type of fuel their vehicles were FORCED to use.

If you start with a dirty fuel it is going to be difficult to make the burn clean.

Autos started using ELECTRICITY and ALCOHOL as their fuel. They were moved to gasoline later.
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I know BIG OIL had their men on the board of directors of the big three, they were obviously controlling the situation. The big 3 guys should be ashamed of this.
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Now they are saying how great it is that America can control the fossil fuel situation using DIRTY techniques of getting fossil fuels out of the ground in North America.

1. TAR SANDS
2. OIL SHALE
3. LIQUID COAL

Just when we are trying to get away from dirty fuel, they have found DIRTY WAYS to get the DIRTY FUEL!

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I can not believe that I have never heard ONE DETROIT MOTOR EXEC say this on/in the news.

Maybe they did, but as a Joe Schmoe growing up in Detroit I do not recall it.

They should have been screaming it loudly and continuously!

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It was/is NOT THE CARS/CAR COMPANIES FAULT!

Dirty fuel will burn DIRTY!