Perspectives of a Wanderer

When I say “habit, I mean our addition to oil and the enemies are the Radical Islamic Terrorists.
The answer is probably yes. Much of the oil money sent to the Middle East ends up in the hands of groups like Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the likes.
How? It is mainly through governments like Iran [...]

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There has been a lot of press lately about how using corn for ethanol has been driving up crop prices. However, I see a few benefits that come from this (and one is already starting):

Farmers are starting to pull land that the government has been paying them to not plant back into production. [...]

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Listening to the news today on the hit job Congress is doing on the Oil Industry, I found myself wondering if government should get involved in the Alternative Energy Debate.
The answer is yes and no. The way the Democrats in Washington is doing it is not the way to go. Yes they should [...]

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Nuclear power hat gotten a bad rap since Three Mile Island.  However, it is not dead.
While I was eating dinner in my hotel room (I am traveling for some training), I overheard a conversation where one said that his power company is building a new nuclear power plant in TX.  If I remember right, Michigan [...]

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People keep harping on how ethanol is driving prices up for food and we should concentrate on methanol.
We can get alot of the cellulose from what is thrown away from currently farmed land. We only use the grain. The rest of the plant (cellulose) is thrown away.
Also, there is switchgrass which could be planted and [...]

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It is amazing how some come up with arguments to keep our dependency on Oil.  They think corn, wheat… is the only source of materials for Ethanol and Methanol.  That is a falsehood that must be countered.  It is this closed mindedness that is keeping the effort back. The only way we will break the [...]

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We know about Methanol and Ethanol, but what about other Alcohols like Butanol.
From what I have read, Butanol can run in today’s gasoline engines without any modifications.
There is so much out there that people do not know about.

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I just did a Yahoo news search on Ethanol and then one on Methanol.  There were approximately 20 times more stories on Ethanol than Methanol.  Yes, ethanol is a little more efficient, methanol can be made from more sources and would not put as much pressure on certain agricultural products.
It is seems to be the [...]

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From reading the book Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil by Robert Zubrin, I see the possibility of Methanol/Ethanol production for many forms of BioMass.
One source that is not mentioned in the book which could be a possible huge contributer to BioMass could [...]

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