Clean Fuels at a Glance +

  • • Higher Mixed Alcohols
  • • Methanol
  • • Grain Ethanol
  • • Cellulosic Ethanol
  • • Synthetic Ethanol
  • • Biodiesel
  • • Butanol
  • • Dimethyl Ether (DME)
Synthetic gasoline? Syndiesel from coal? Oil-based fuels from algae, grasses or waste grease? Single alcohols like ethanol? What about higher mixed alcohol fuels?

Which fuel is the best and why?

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Fuel For Thought +

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

- Henry David Thoreau

Somebody needed to do something, and it was incredibly pathetic that it had to be us.

- Jerry Garcia

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

- Walt Kelly

The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

- Albert Einstein

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

- Confucius

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

- Ghandi

After hydrogen, the most common thing in the universe is stupidity.

- Albert Einstein

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

-Richard Feynman

More Fuel For Thought

The Green Fuel Prescription

At Risk: Economy, Environment
Disease: Fossil Fuel Dependency
Symptoms: Pollution, Oil Sheiks
Cure: Higher Mixed Alcohol Fuel
Dosage: Continuous 24/7
Contraindications: None
Manufacturer: Bioroot Energy, LLC

Oil companies look at permanent refinery cutbacks

So amid the chaos of  market upheaval due to declining demand, spurred on by the new “less is more” mantra of increasing consumption efficiencies, at least one industry guy is pointing where fuels in general are headed, in my opinion.  Fuels, like the rapidly changing vehicles we all drive, need to be better in every respect, not just price, but sourced from feedstock diversity, cleaner, produce local area benefits, and ultimately be more profitable to local business.

Refiners raked in big profits from 2003 to 2006, but “by 2007, it was largely over,” said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst for the Oil Price Information Service, an energy information firm in Wall, N.J.

“Now, along with very weak demand numbers for gasoline, everything points to biofuels getting a larger and larger share in the future.”

Link to LA Times article



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