Synthetic gasoline? Syndiesel from coal? Oil-based fuels from algae, grasses or waste grease? Single alcohols like ethanol? What about higher mixed alcohol fuel?
NYT Environment blogger Andrew Revkin rocks it with a tune about America’s fossil energy addiction. This song, by “Andy Revkin,” relates the history of humanity’s dirty relationship with fossil fuels.
Homo Sapiens have a sacred duty to steward the natural environment and protect it from degradation or outright destruction. It’s a sobering thought that humanity might have better luck deflecting asteroids away from a terrestrial encounter than doing anything substantive to fix the atmosphere now being used as an open sewer by industry and society.
A coalition of the ready, willing and capable is forming at:
The video points to housing and other traditional markets for wood products. Responsible use of wood from America’s forests can also include using what has historically been piled and burned because there was no better use of the needles, barks, branches and cones from thinning and fuel reduction projects. (All that “waste” biomass can make a lot of great clean fuel, an un-traditional but valuable use of wood.)
This video featuring Standard Alcohol Company of America, Inc., and ENVIROLENE was shot in 2000 by a PBS affiliate. The mixed alcohol fuel story is even more compelling today, but the first commercial production facility has yet to be built.
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