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Sweden burns bunnies for warmth

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:55:08 GMT

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Move over ethanol, there is a new bio-fuel in the world... bunnies.

Thousands of stray rabbits in Sweden are being shot, frozen and then burned for heat. Stockholm even hires rabbit hunters for the task, like Tommy Tuvuynger, a modern day Elmer Fudd.

"We are shooting rabbits in Stockholm center, they are a very big problem," he said. "Once culled, the rabbits are frozen and when we have enough; a contractor comes and takes them away."

Tuvunger is leading the fight to continue sniping bunnies for warmth. Several animal rights groups in Sweden have come out in opposition to the practice, saying that if the rabbits are a problem there are non-lethal ways to deal with them. But Tuvunger is having none of that, "If you do that you only move the problem 100 meters away."

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Biofuel from Sewage

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:46:39 GMT

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Qteros forms a partnership to use sewage as a feedstock for making ethanol.

These days, more and more companies are finding that sewage is a veritable "black gold." In recent years, sewage sludge has been mined for electricity, fertilizer, fish food, and gasoline. Now two companies have partnered up to turn sewage into ethanol. While others have worked to produce ethanol from municipal solid waste, sewage from wastewater has been a relatively unmined ethanol source.

On Q: The Q microbe (pictured), a lollipop-shaped organism that naturally breaks down and converts plant matter into ethanol, is now being used to make biofuel from sewage.
Credit: Qteros

Organic Waste Ethanol

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:25:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Cellulosic ethanol is an exciting technology which promises to convert the abundant sources of organic waste worldwide (kitchen waste, yard waste, paper industry waste, etc.) into green alternative fuel. Unlike traditional ethanol, it won't use food crops or raise food prices. In addition, environmental impact studies have indicated that while traditional ethanol releases more greenhouse gases than burning fossil fuels, cellulosic ethanol could reduce emissions

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The outlook for waste-ethanol is looking up

Traditionally the creation of cellulosic ethanol follows one of two routes. The first route is to first plasmify the organic matter, breaking down the cellulose and creating a gassy mix of small hydrocarbons. This mix is then fed to special bacteria, which produce the ethanol. Coskata, one leading manufacturer that promises $1/gallon ethanol, is implementing this strategy.

A second route is two feed the cellulose directly to enzymes that break it down, and then ferment the resulting sugars to turn them into ethanol. However, this process has traditionally been more expensive than the other approach, as the enzymes cost a lot of money, and typically a significant portion are lost during the cellulose degradation.

New research from Louisiana Tech University allows cellulose-digesting enzymes like cellulase, pictured here, to be immobilized, reducing enzyme loss and the cost of enzymatic cellulosic ethanol. (Source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Bombing the Moon Gives A New Meaning to Lunatics

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:36:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: So how much does a metaphor weigh? A lot more than NASA thinks. The first man on the moon wasn't an American or a Russian, it was The Man in the Moon we all saw when we were kids, and somebody older showed him to us. That's the first man on the moon, her permanent resident, and now he's got a NASA rocket at his backside...

They used to call the mentally ill lunatics. But now I wonder who the real lunatics are. And if there is water on the moon, what are we going to do with it? Grow moon-corn for ethanol until we kill the Earth?
Such a great article it touched something, it really touched something more beautiful than finding water on the moon.

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Landing a man on the moon to do it before the Russians was crazy enough.

The value was purely symbolic, and as far as symbolism goes, the moon has it all over nationalism. The moon has been a symbol since humanity began. She is Luna, who gave us the name for the months of the year, the faithful and lonely companion of Earth who lives in our oldest poems and crosses the sky of our dreams. She pulls up the tides and the blood in the bodies of women. She is the archetype who is always on the verge of stereotype, but never gets there because no matter how many bad songs and broken hearts she uses up, she is still just as powerful when you look up and see her in the sky growing full and sickle-thin. She works her poetic charms in English, Russian, German and every other language, the supreme metaphor.

Who does the moon belong to anyway? Can we just blow a hole in it without asking all the billions of people on Earth who look up at the sky every night and wonder at her beauty and talk to it?

Tags: bombing the moon, moon, nasa lunacy, science gone mad, who are the real lunatics

Odds Favor Drunk Trauma Victims

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:05:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A study in the journal American Surgeon finds that trauma victims who were inebriated at the time of their injury have higher survival rates than their sober counterparts.

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Being drunk might make you more accident prone, but it also increases your chance of survival. Research published in the journal American Surgeon reveals that trauma patients are more likely to survive if they were intoxicated at the time of their injury.

study of nearly 8,000 trauma patients found that seven percent of people who came in sober died of their injuries, while those who were hurt while drunk only died one percent of the time. A positive blood alcohol level seemed to increase the likelihood of survival, even after the researchers took into account the age of the patient and the severity of the injury. Trauma patients who came in to the hospital drunk were discharged sooner

a past study on animals did find that ethanol protected against nerve damage. The new work hints that alcohol might have a place in treating traumatic injuries, although more research is needed. In the meantime, avoiding trauma in the first place is still the strategy one might call most sober.

A drink any one? :)

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:04:57 GMT

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Bashed your head? You needed a stiff drink

Crazy as it sounds, alcohol may one day be given to people with brain injuries to help them recover.

The idea has arisen from a study of 38,000 people with head injuries, which found that those with alcohol in their blood were more likely to survive. For every 100 people who died when stone-cold sober, only 88 died with ethanol – the kind of alcohol in drinks – in their veins.

"The finding raises the intriguing possibility that administering ethanol to patients with brain injuries may improve outcome," conclude the investigators.

Lead researcher Ali Salim of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles said he hoped a trial could be mounted, but more information is needed first. "We need a better understanding of the exact mechanism, the appropriate dose and specific timing of treatment before we can embark on clinical trials," he told New Scientist.

Next Stop - The Dead Zone Grows and Grows

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:48:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: You know there is a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, south of New Orleans, right? You didn't even more reason to read this. But the harsh news is that one of the only ways to reduce its growth, it to use less fuel, walk more, drive less. Pretty harsh? Climate change and clean up is not going to be easy - did you think?

Clip Source: solveclimate.com

Next-Gen Biofuels No Better for Gulf's 'Dead Zone' than Old-School Corn

It is widely known that corn ethanol is driving the growth of the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone." Now, surprising new data suggests that switching to non-food cellulosic fuels won't help the problem one bit.

Tags: biofuels, dead-zone, gulf

Scientists Hope to Power Cars with Grass Clippings

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:38:04 GMT

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Scientists hope to power cars with grass clippings

In Brazil, nine out of ten cars run on sugarcane ethanol and in the US corn-based ethanol is more of a supplement. The rise in the demand of bio-fuel has forced scientists to think of ways to produce fuel which don’t depend on food crops. Scientists at the National Science Foundation think they can produce bio-fuel from leftovers such as grass clipping and other organic waste.

The latest in technology is making it possible to breakdown farm waste such as corn stalks, grass, weeds and wood and convert it into useful biofuel, thus ending the dependence on food crops. These scientists believe that they can use the existing infrastructure of oil pipelines, storage tanks, refineries and engines for this new fuel, which reduces greenhouse gas emissions and is renewable.

Mouthwash Linked To Cancer

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:23:40 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au

Mouthwash linked to cancer

AUSTRALIA'S top-selling mouthwashes can cause oral cancer and should be pulled from supermarket shelves immediately.

Leading independent experts have issued this strong warning after investigating latest scientific evidence linking alcohol-containing mouthwashes to the deadly disease.

Their review, published in the Dental Journal of Australia, concludes there is now ``sufficient evidence'' that "alcohol-containing mouthwashes contribute to the increased risk of development of oral cancer''.

The ethanol in mouthwash is thought to allow cancer-causing substances to permeate the lining of the mouth more easily and cause harm.

Acetaldehyde, a toxic by-product of alcohol that may accumulate in the oral cavity when swished around the mouth, is also believed to be carcinogenic.

Listerine, the nation's biggest-selling mouthwash and a brand endorsed by the Australian Dental Association (ADA), contains as much as 26 per cent alcohol.

Ethanol: Company available for partnering

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:53:21 GMT

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ENERGY: How to help reduce importation of foreign oil. Company seeking partner(s).

CLEAN ENERGY... NO CORN

Blog by Howard Stern.

Sugar Land, Texas September 6, 2009

As a small Company, sternh@windstream.net, we have important TECHNOLOGY and SYSTEMS to provide as much as 12 Billion gallons* [U.S .] of CLEAN Ethanol from BIOMASS, ALGAE, LAKE WEEDS, SEAWEEDS, at less than half the price of corn and other grains used to produce ETHANOL. Spent 40+years in R&D. and need to Partner (s) because it requires extensive manpower and, ability to move quickly to expand and operate on a worldwide basis.

We have answers...

* TECHNOLOGY TO PRODUCE CLEAN & CHEAP RENEWABLE BIOFUELS
* Plus LARGE NUMBER of TECH JOBS IN MOST STATES.
Will be Vertically Integrated.
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(within the same time frame as the corn and grain industry)
For qualified Corporations: sternh@windstream.net

Tags: ethanol, energy, renewable energy, renewable, alternative energy, alternative fuels, bioethanol, biofuels

Understanding Government Subsidies

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:05:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There are many people who will rally behind "socialized" oil, but read on:
Hidden Oil Subsidies
The real price of gasoline is what people actually pay for it, not just what they pay for it at the pump. That might seem subtle, but there's a big difference.
The Cato Institute, a libertarian think-thank, did a study on the subject. What they found is simply mind-boggling. They calculated that the US spent between $30 to $60 billion (with a 'b') a year safeguarding oil supplies in the Middle East during the 1990s, even though its imports from that region totaled only about $10 billion a year during that period. A more comprehensive study that includes the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and other oil protection services (the coast guard is clearing shipping lanes and doing navigational support to oil tankers, etc) shows that actual subsidies to Big Oil are between $78 to $158 billion (again, with a 'b') per year.

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Econ 101: Subsidies
One of the many problems with subsidies is that they are almost impossible to repeal. That's because they usually give big benefits to a small group of people at a relatively small cost to a huge number of people. For example, corn-ethanol subsidies are going to be very hard to phase out because they might mean hundreds of thousands of dollars to farmers, while their cost is spread over the rest of the population and almost invisible. Farmers are a lot more motivated to lobby politicians than the average taxpayer, even if they only represent 1% of the population. The green impact of this is that corn-ethanol, a biofuel that would not necessarily be used much otherwise, is now made competitive with taxpayer dollars (and by putting tariffs on the greener Brazilian sugarcane ethanol), and that makes it harder for other alternative fuels to supersede it (and it also drive food prices up, something that affects most the poor).

Global trends of bio-ethanol fuel

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:42:23 GMT

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Global trends of bio-ethanol fuel

Bio-fuels are liquid or gaseous fuels made from plant matter and residues, such as agricultural crops, municipal wastes and agricultural and forestry by-products. Liquid bio-fuels can be used as an alternative fuel for transport, as can other alternatives such as liquid natural gas (LNG), compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and hydrogen. Bio-fuels could significantly reduce the emissions from the road-transport sector if they were widely adopted. They have been shown to reduce carbon emissions, and may help to increase energy security.

Tags: biodiesel

Watermelon Power May One Day Juice Your Car

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:13:58 GMT

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Watermelon Power May One Day Juice Your Car

Watermelons are not just a favorite summer treat, - according to new research by the US Department of Agriculture, they may soon fuel our cars. Research reveals that watermelon juice has a relatively high concentration of directly fermentable sugars, which may be a valuable source for biofuel due to the ease with which they can be fermented into ethanol. But don’t worry about your favorite corn field being plowed under to make way for a new cash crop - researchers say there are enough wasted watermelons out there to use as biofuel feedstock.

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Watermelon rejects a source of energy

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:57:34 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Researchers have shown that the juice of reject watermelons can be efficiently fermented into ethanol.

Wayne Fish worked with a team of researchers at the USDA-Agricultural Research Service’s South Central Agricultural Research Laboratory in Lane, Oklahoma, US, to evaluate the biofuel potential of juice from ‘cull’ watermelons – those not sold due to cosmetic imperfections, and currently ploughed back into the field. He said, “About 20% of each annual watermelon crop is left in the field because of surface blemishes or because they are misshapen. We’ve shown that the juice of these melons is a source of readily fermentable sugars, representing a heretofore untapped feedstock for ethanol biofuel production”.

Obama's Plan to Desecrate 9/11

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:58:46 GMT

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The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry.

This effort to reshape the American psyche has nothing to do with healing the nation and everything to do with easing the nation along in the ongoing radical transformation of America that President Obama promised during last year's election campaign. The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service, but it's not likely many lawmakers thought this meant that day was going to be turned into a celebration of ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing.

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Ethanol: Company available for partnering

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Global trends of bio-ethanol fuel

Global trends of bio-ethanol fuel

Watermelon Power May One Day Juice Your Car

Watermelon Power May One Day Juice Your Car

Watermelon rejects a source of energy

Obama's Plan to Desecrate 9/11