Is that what the secret ingredient is?
"Carbon dioxide, sun, and secret ingredient are firm’s fuel recipe" by Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff | July 27, 2009
Combine a dash of sun, a pinch of carbon dioxide, and a designer organism and what do you get? According to Cambridge start-up Joule Biotechnologies, liquid fuel made from sunlight - or SolarFuel.
The company will today unveil a new process for making alternative fuels that it calls helioculture, chief executive Bill Sims said. In the process, sunlight and the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, considered to be a factor in global warming, are captured in a converter that resembles a solar panel. Inside the converter, suspended in brackish water, are the company’s highly engineered, proprietary organisms. They absorb the gas and light, and produce the fuel ethanol, hydrocarbons, and petroleum-derived chemicals, Sims said.
Although they say it’s something that exists in nature, neither Sims nor Joule cofounder David Berry would disclose what kind of organism the company modified to make fuel. There are companies that currently make so-called biofuels from grass, algae, and other materials. Sims said the Joule process is different....
Isn't there a HEALTH CONCERN then, and if so WhereTF is the state?
Although the company’s reluctance to name the organism it is using is understandable, she said, that decision will make it harder for Joule to combat the usual skepticism about alternative fuels as it tries to break into the market with an untried product....
Oh, so this business lead was an agenda-pushing business release, 'eh, Globe?
Yeah, I thought I was smelling something.
"A refreshing idea for barnyard odor; Methane digester may reenergize dairies, if only farmers can afford them" by Tara Ballenger, Globe Correspondent | July 6, 2009
When Deerfield farmer Peter Melnik heard about a machine that would make energy from cow manure, he was immediately intrigued.
Wind must be blowing this way.
And are we not lecturing Africans and Indian peasants for using this "fuel?"
Not only would using it make his dairy farm more environmentally friendly, the technology could bring in extra cash by converting methane, an odorous and potent greenhouse gas, into electricity that could be sold to the regional power grid.
Yeah, it is has MUCH MORE INFLUENCE than the CARBON you need to be TAXED ON, dear readers!
The machine, called a methane digester, has been popular in Europe since the 1970s, but the idea is just catching on in the United States. Six farms in Vermont have digesters that produce electricity, and Melnik is hoping to be the first Massachusetts farmer to install the machinery.
But the crash of wholesale milk prices, to about half of what they were a year ago, may put this green innovation out of the reach of many independent New England farmers. The machines come with a $1.7 million price tag, so Melnik has spent nearly two years devising a way to finance the investment. He has received some grant money and hopes to get more, but he will need a large loan, borrowing against a farm that is seeing its dairy revenue plummet.
That's what everything boils down to, isn't it? DEBT!
Melnik joined with four other Massachusetts farmers who want to install digesters to apply for grants and share resources. Last month, they were awarded a $34,800 grant from the state Department of Agricultural Resources. It did not make much of a dent in the overall cost, however....
And you know where that $35,000 came from, right, taxpayers?
If all farms worked to reduce methane emissions, it would have a significant impact on global warming, said Ruth Varner, research assistant professor at the Climate Change Research Center of the University of New Hampshire....
PFFFFFFFTTT!
I'm getting to the point where I want to shove their fart-misting faces into a pile!
Methane’s role in the atmosphere is not as well understood as that of carbon dioxide, she said, but scientists agree that methane traps heat at least 20 times more efficiently than carbon dioxide does. Though it stays in the atmosphere only 12 years, compared with 100 for carbon dioxide, it is still considered to have a long life....
And FOR THAT you must pay a CARBON TAX!!
At Green Mountain Dairy in Sheldon, Vt., Bill Rowell has been turning manure into electricity for two years. The floor of the barns where his 1,500 Holsteins eat and sleep is mechanically scraped, and the manure is channeled into an underground tank, where heat and bacteria produce a gas that is used to turn an electrical generator. After 21 days in the tank, the remaining manure is separated into solids and liquids, with the liquid flowing to a nearby lagoon and the solid manure dried and used for bedding for the barn or sold as compost.
Ready for a nap, readers? Or a swim?
The digester will pay for itself in about four more years, Rowell said. Meanwhile, finances are too tight to consider other green projects....
In Swanton, Vt., Earl Fournier is getting help to reduce the methane emitted when cows burp, another major agricultural source of the gas.
Now HOW in the world are we going to STOP THAT?
Make them all into steaks and hamburgers?
Yogurt company Stonyfield Farm is sponsoring a program that helps 15 farmers feed cows flax high in Omega-3 fatty acids, which, according to scientists working with Stonyfield, reduces the methane produced through belching. Fournier’s cows produced 18 percent less methane on the flax.
Now they want to F*** with the COW'S DIET!!
“I have children; I have grandchildren,’’ Fournier said. “Their future is important, and what we do is going to have a huge impact on their future.’’
Yeah, and the FIRST THING we can do is STOP LYING TO THEM!
And this next item is just as bad as making ethanol:
"Making fuel from food waste; Waltham firm must clear hurdles before capitalizing on leftovers" by Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist | February 21, 2010
I ALWAYS CLEAR MY PLATE, readers!
People are STARVING in this world!
To THROW AWAY FOOD is BLASPHEMOUS!
A hungry young company in Waltham is eyeing that half-eaten bagel on your plate, that grapefruit rind, and those first few pancakes that didn’t come out quite right. Harvest Power Inc. looks at leftover food from homes, restaurants, and supermarkets as an underutilized resource.
Sadly, that is true.
Today, nearly all of it heads to the landfill. In Harvest Power’s vision of the future - supported by $40 million in funding from investors like venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers of California and the trash-hauler Waste Management Inc. - it has the potential to be turned into compost, electricity, natural gas, or steam for heating.
Now you know where your pension went and why your kid's tuition keeps rising.
“Twenty years ago, yard waste wasn’t separated, and it went to the landfill - and the United States produces about as much food waste as we do yard waste,’’ says Harvest Power chief executive Paul Sellew.
Most cities and towns collect yard waste separately and send it to facilities for composting. There are about 30 such facilities in Massachusetts, according to the state’s Department of Environmental Protection. Sellew would like to see the same sort of shift happen with excess food, and policy makers and planning agencies such as the Boston Redevelopment Authority seem interested. Harvest is set to begin building its first energy-producing plant in Vancouver, Canada, later this year, and is proposing another for San Jose, Calif.
Not here, huh?
“We’re more active on the West Coast, where a lot of cities are talking about the goal of zero waste - nothing going to the landfills,’’ says Sellew....
Galen Nelson, the green-tech business manager at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, says the city “strongly endorses’’ the idea of doing something with food waste other than sending it to the dump.
How about EATING IT before you THROW IT AWAY?
“Part of the appeal is for the economic benefits of the jobs it would create at the facility, and another aspect is the greenhouse gas reduction,’’ Nelson says. When food decomposes naturally in a landfill, it can release methane into the environment - a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
But you need to pay a carbon tax!
Some landfills, including those in Fall River and Lowell, seek to capture this methane as an energy source.... But actually building a facility to process it may not be any easier than finding a home for a coal-fired power plant or erecting a couple dozen windmills in Nantucket Sound.
Related:
Identifying a suitable site, James Coleman, an assistant commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, observes, “can be a long and expensive process’’ that involves his department, local boards of health, and plenty of community input.
Like they ever care what the community has to say!
Only if we complain and get angry do they even take notice!
There’s even a statewide ballot initiative this fall, intended to block the construction of facilities that incinerate wood and other “biomass’’ materials, which could keep Harvest from building a plant anywhere in Massachusetts, the company says. And establishing a system to collect food waste from all of our homes - not to mention persuading us to separate it from the rest of our trash - is another step.
But if you say New World Order or globalist control grid you are a "conspiracy theorist."
And here the GOVERNMENT and INDUSTRY wants to get right on to your KITCHEN TABLE!!
The town of Hamilton ran a small food-waste collection pilot program last winter, with 74 families. The food scraps were composted, but not used for energy production. But Coleman says that households that chose to have leftover food collected in Hamilton would probably pay an extra $70 annually for the privilege, which could limit the idea’s appeal. (Some cities may choose to fold in any extra costs into their ordinary trash collection fees or taxes.)
Yeah, you must PAY for the PRIVILEGE of having GOVERNMENT take FOOD off your TABLE!!!
PFFFFFFFFT!!
There, why don't you take that, too, s***ter!!!!
Still, Nathan Gilliland, Harvest’s chief financial officer, says that the company’s plants would be able to operate profitably without household collection. “Grocery stores and restaurants are the big two food waste producers,’’ he says....
Then why are you tying to get in my door?
So say goodbye to that half-eaten bagel: still trash today, though potentially fuel tomorrow.
Oh, I am, Glob!
PFFFFFFFTTT!!
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Yup, see you at the shit pit, readers!
