From thomas at thosmos.com Mon Jul 16 00:52:59 2007 From: thomas at thosmos.com (Thomas Spellman) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:52:59 -0700 Subject: [Energy] good news for efficient and sustainable ethanol production Message-ID: <00dc01c7c77e$54c1eb30$c401a8c0@gothos> America's First Cellulosic Ethanol Plant hankmt writes "The state of Georgia just granted Range Fuels a permit to create the first cellulosic ethanol plant in America. Cellulosic ethanol produces ethanol from cellulose, which all plants have, instead of from sugar, which is only abundant in food crops. Corn ethanol only produces 1.3 units of energy for every unit of energy that goes into growing the crop and converting the sugar to ethanol. Cellulosic ethanol can produce as much as 16 units of energy for every one unit of energy put into the process. The new plant will be online in 2008 and aims to produce 100 million gallons of ethanol a year." Read more of this story at Slashdot. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.apple-nc.org/pipermail/energy/attachments/20070716/5b4e2ebd/attachment.html From thomas at thosmos.com Wed Jul 18 10:59:28 2007 From: thomas at thosmos.com (Thomas Spellman) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:59:28 -0700 Subject: [Energy] Boeing Helping to Develop Algae-Powered Jet Message-ID: <015b01c7c965$63909c90$c401a8c0@gothos> Boeing Helping to Develop Algae-Powered Jet jon_cooper writes "Air New Zealand, Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation and Boeing are working together to develop and test a bio-fuel derived from algae. Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation began operating in May last year after it met a request from the local council to deal with excess algae on sewage ponds. Boeing's Dave Daggett was reported this year as saying algae ponds totaling 34,000 square kilometers could produce enough fuel to reduce the net CO2 footprint for all of aviation to zero." Read more of this story at Slashdot. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.apple-nc.org/pipermail/energy/attachments/20070718/75c7c85a/attachment.html From pcurrents at mountainastrologer.com Mon Jul 23 18:36:13 2007 From: pcurrents at mountainastrologer.com (Tem Tarriktar) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:36:13 -0700 Subject: [Energy] Next Clean Power Co-op meeting (poster) Message-ID: <95013626-0B20-4492-B92A-015B82354B2D@mountainastrologer.com> Passing this on... from Marston. The attachment is our flyer for the next Co-op meeting. Please help spread the word. We want a big turn out. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Biofuels flyer.cwk (WP).pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 317793 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.apple-nc.org/pipermail/energy/attachments/20070723/6185e326/attachment.pdf -------------- next part -------------- From thomas at thosmos.com Tue Jul 31 09:51:41 2007 From: thomas at thosmos.com (Thomas Spellman) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:51:41 -0700 Subject: [Energy] Small Electric Car May Usher In Big Changes Message-ID: <027901c7d393$12c93d20$385bb760$@com> Small Electric Car May Usher In Big Changes An anonymous reader sends us to a profile in CNNMoney.com on a Norwegian car company that is building a compact, plug-in electric car, the Think City, that will go on sale in Europe early next year. It could hit US markets in 2009. The CEO is working with Silicon Valley VCs and with Google, Tesla Motors, PG&E, and Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway. Plans are to sell the car only on the Web. No dealers, cheap manufacturing plants, and a battery pack that you lease, not buy - there's potential here for shaking up the auto industry the way Dell did PCs. Read more of this story at Slashdot. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.apple-nc.org/pipermail/energy/attachments/20070731/46643447/attachment.html