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- New idea in mortuary science: Dissolving bodies with lye
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  Can't they just make me into a green battery? ... Getting the public to accept a process that strikes some as ghastly may be the biggest challenge. Psychopaths and dictators have used acid or lye to torture or erase their victims, and legislation to make alkaline hydrolysis available to the public in New York state was branded "Hannibal Lecter's bill" in a play on the sponsor's name - Sen. Kemp Hannon - and the movie character's sadism.
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- Abu Dhabi Aims to Build First Carbon-Neutral City : NPR
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  Morning Edition, May 6, 2008 · In Abu Dhabi, there's an area of nothing but wind-swept desert. But 10 years from now, if all goes according to plan, a city of 6 square kilometers housing 50,000 people will rise in the United Arab Emirates - and it will be carbon neutral.
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- McCain calls for 700+ new nuclear plants (and 7 Yucca mountains) costing $4 trillion
  Posted by Jeff from Huffington Post
  Well, sort of. The HuffPo folks love to write sensational headlines... "We would have to quadruple the number of reactors to 400, which would take decades even if we could somehow return to -- and sustain -- the fastest decadal rate of U.S. nuclear plant construction. But that wouldn't mean just building 300 new nuclear plants, for several reasons. First, by 2050, almost all of the existing plants would need to be replaced, so that is another hundred to build if we want to hit the 80% goal."
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- Gasoline May Soon Cost $10 per gallon
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  The forecasts calling for a jump to between $7 and $10 a gallon are based on the view that the price of crude is on its way to $200 in two to three years. It's $4.62 in San Mateo at one station already.
  
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- Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promises Cheaper Gas, Less Emissions
  Posted by Jeff from Yahoo News!
  The New York Times today reports on the $9,995 Microfueler, a home-based appliance for brewing ethanol for your car. The MicroFueler will use sugar as its main fuel source, or feedstock, along with a specially packaged time-release yeast the company has developed. Depending on the cost of sugar, plus water and electricity, the company says it could cost as little as a dollar a gallon to make ethanol. In general, he says, burning a gallon of ethanol made by his system will produce one-eighth the carbon of the same amount of gasoline.
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- Native Americans Launch Wind Energy Project
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  With the demand for wind-energy mounting, native tribes are pushing to increase wind projects on tribal lands, reports Indian Country Today. A Seattle company, Native Green Energy is installing turbines in Maine to power 50 homes and enable the tribe to sell excess energy to private utilities. There is great potential for wind energy in the native-owned lands in the Northern Great Plains-enough, some experts say, to meet the nation's electrical needs, but existing laws do not allow tax credits to non-Native companies that team with tribes. Bills have been introduced in the House and Senate to allow the tax credit.
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- Hype Machine: Searching for ZAP's Fleet of No-Show Green Cars
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  Hype Machine: Searching for ZAP's Fleet of No-Show Green Cars
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danpancamo comments on:
Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promises Cheaper Gas, Less Emissions

So I would need a shipment of 470lbs of sugar and ?? lbs of yeast each week to fuel my car that used $35 gl/week? . 470lbs shipping cost for $35? I don’t get it… The math doesn’t add up even if the cost of sugar is $.02

Maybe someone can do the math…. I can’t

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7:15 pm 5/11/08
Jeff comments on:
Abu Dhabi Aims to Build First Carbon-Neutral City : NPR

Four other nations also
on track for carbon neutral
.

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2:47 pm 5/06/08
flashgordon comments on:
Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promises Cheaper Gas, Less Emissions

This is more of a device for the rich, as it is priced at around 10,000 dollars. However, it is a great start. There is some really good sustainable ethanol production going on with non-food based products that I find very encouraging.
I’m not sure about the lack of octane in ethanol – if the car is properly outfitted it should have as much power as petro fuel delivers.

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6:08 am 4/28/08
raynetoday comments on:
Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promises Cheaper Gas, Less Emissions

Jeepers, if only this device could convert grass clippings and other herbaceous waste products into ethanol, it would be a bonanza…
But using processed sugar as a fuel is as environmentally and economically challenging as using corn. What’s corn, after all, but unrefined corn syrup?

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7:02 pm 4/27/08
MattHagen comments on:
Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promises Cheaper Gas, Less Emissions

This doesn’t take into account, of course, the effect widespread distribution would have on commodity pricing. If everyone puts one of these home stills into use, the price will skyrocket to the point where the only sensible thing to do with the ethanol is what I currently do: Drink it.

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6:11 pm 4/27/08
hong comments on:
Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promises Cheaper Gas, Less Emissions

it sounds not bad,so interesting

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5:49 pm 4/27/08
Jeff comments on:
Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promises Cheaper Gas, Less Emissions

It’s important to note that sugar is a strongly protected trade import in the United States. The article claims the company is working on a NAFTA-inspired distribution network for cheaper Mexican sugar:
It takes up to 14 pounds, or 6.5 kilograms, of sugar to make a gallon of ethanol, and raw sugar sells in the United States for about 20 cents a pound, says Michael Salassi, a professor in the department of agricultural economics at Louisiana State University. But Quinn says that as of January this year, under the North American Free Trade Agreement, he can buy inedible sugar from Mexico for as little as 2.5 cents a pound, which puts the math in his favor. While this type of sugar has not been sold to consumers, E-Fuel says it is developing a distribution network for it.

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1:01 pm 4/27/08

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