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Showing posts with label Oil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oil. Show all posts
Friday, June 18, 2010
Getting off oil is easy....
Hilarious (and sadly somewhat true...)
Sunday, July 20, 2008
What can we do in 10 years...
In a recent speech, Al Gore poses a bold challenge to the United States: producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.
Wow! Unfortunately it's not only bold, but very likely critical to achieve. But can it be done? It would require unifying and modernizing the US energy grid, harvesting solar, wind and geothermal energy, producing cars running purely on electricity, and much much more. Brazil made the switch from foreign oil to only homegrown ethanol in only a few years . Still carbon based and pollution emitting, but a bold change. To me, it seems possible, especially given the engineering and financial resources of the USA.
What do you think?
You can watch and read the speech here: http://www.wecansolveit.org/content/pages/304/
To support this initiative, read: http://www.wecansolveit.org/content/pages/289/
Wow! Unfortunately it's not only bold, but very likely critical to achieve. But can it be done? It would require unifying and modernizing the US energy grid, harvesting solar, wind and geothermal energy, producing cars running purely on electricity, and much much more. Brazil made the switch from foreign oil to only homegrown ethanol in only a few years . Still carbon based and pollution emitting, but a bold change. To me, it seems possible, especially given the engineering and financial resources of the USA.
What do you think?
You can watch and read the speech here: http://www.wecansolveit.org/content/pages/304/
To support this initiative, read: http://www.wecansolveit.org/content/pages/289/
Friday, February 22, 2008
Shai Agassi's better place
Most of us remember Shai Agassi as the young, charismatic SAP development leader. Since his retirement From ERP software, he has been busy on greener initiatives (see also "the long tailpipe").
His latest initiative is called "Project Better Place", an effort to introduce electric cars to the state of Israel. This collaboration by an automaker and a government could lead to a more widespread adoption of emission free vehicles. It includes building a complete infrastructure for charging vehicles as well as building new electric vehicles and retro-fitting existing cars.
Hats off to Shai for dedicating his efforts to a greener cause!
His latest initiative is called "Project Better Place", an effort to introduce electric cars to the state of Israel. This collaboration by an automaker and a government could lead to a more widespread adoption of emission free vehicles. It includes building a complete infrastructure for charging vehicles as well as building new electric vehicles and retro-fitting existing cars.
Hats off to Shai for dedicating his efforts to a greener cause!
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Anything into Oil
I few years back, I read an interesting article in Discover magazine. Though the oil being produced is "light oil", we probably still have the problem of emissions. Don't know if this truly falls under "green" but at least this process can help with the solid waste that is currently being produced around the world.
Agriculture represents over 50% of the estimated 12 billion tons of solid waste produced each year in the U.S. The food processing industry in the U.S. alone generates billions of pounds of organically rich wastes each year. These wastes are associated with the processing of both animal and plant products. If all agricultural waste were made available for use in the TCP, an extraordinarily large amount of oil could be generated that almost meets the 4 billion barrels of oil that are imported to the U.S. each year.
This plant can help.
Agriculture represents over 50% of the estimated 12 billion tons of solid waste produced each year in the U.S. The food processing industry in the U.S. alone generates billions of pounds of organically rich wastes each year. These wastes are associated with the processing of both animal and plant products. If all agricultural waste were made available for use in the TCP, an extraordinarily large amount of oil could be generated that almost meets the 4 billion barrels of oil that are imported to the U.S. each year.
This plant can help.
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