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Comment by mike on November 17, 2010 at 3:10pm

Indie Film “Haynesville” Will Premiere November 23rd On CNBC

“Haynesville” will premiere on Tuesday, November 23rd at 9pm on CNBC. The one hour documentary will repeat that evening at 10pm, 12am and 1am.

The show will also air on:

Sunday, November 28th at 10pm.

“Haynesville”

When the people in rural Northern Louisiana learn they are sitting on a fortune, they struggle to weigh their big dreams against the safety of their community. Some will take the money and run while others learn to negotiate with the big energy companies who are looking to drill into the trillion-dollar natural gas reservoir that lies deep beneath their homes. Will this be easy money or the fight of their lives, in what some are calling the “new gold rush”?

http://www.theindechannel.com/movies/indie-film-haynesville-will-pr...

Please watch and tell your friends!



film, natural gas, shale, indie, pickens plan, Haynesville, fracking, energy

Comment by Oscar on June 10, 2010 at 12:56pm

The new BRC Fuel Maker announced that the Phill CNG home refueling system is now available for ordering. The order to delivery time is 14 weeks so don't wait or it'll arrive in the dead of winter.

Find your Phill dealer at http://www.impcotechnologies.com/phill-dealers.asp
I am the western Wisconsin dealer. Send any questions you have to has@pressenter.com

Lets get out of the foreign oil glut. Save today, Save tomorrow

Comment by Missy Steichen on May 4, 2010 at 1:31pm

Tune into Fox News' Strategy Room this afternoon at 3:45. T. Boone will be on their program discussing the Pickens Plan, and there will be an online forum where he will answer questions live via email.

If you have a question you would like to ask Boone, visit http://live.foxnews.com/strategy-room

Missy :-)

Comment by Missy Steichen on April 22, 2010 at 4:34pm

T. Boone's Mesa Power 78-megawatt wind Energy project in MN is approved! read the full article here

Comment by Oscar on April 12, 2010 at 10:09pm

Southeast MN

The La Crosse, Wi Earth Day Celebration has a Month of activities scheduled.

April 24th 11am - 4pm at Western Wisconsin Technical College, Lunda Center 304 N 6th Street is having a Green Expo featuring Green Homes and Green Transporation. Information booths and workshops ongoing during the day. There is also a shuttle between the Expo and the Earth Fair. The Earth Fair is at Three Rivers Waldorf School, 2000 Weston Ave with a farmers market, childrens activities and crafts, workshops and environmental films.

I will be showing the Phill CNG home refueling appliance and Motorwerks will have the Honda Civic GX CNG on display. The GX is the worlds cleanest burning internal combustion engine.

Other vehicles on display are the neighborhood electric and hybrid vehicles.

I hope to see you there. Stop by and say hi. Oscar

Comment by Missy Steichen on January 13, 2010 at 9:19pm

This is the new ad will begin running tomorrow on cable tv. It si an eye opener! And please remember to sign the Pledge for Energy Independence, and pass it along to your friends, relatives and co-workers!

Comment by Oscar on May 18, 2009 at 11:24pm

A dedicated CNG vehicle is great but the situation is for commuters. Conversion to bi-fuel is the clear ticket if you need to get cross country. There are no certified conversion kits for older vehicles but you could get by on a grandfather once the vehicle is beyond useful life. In other words over 10 years old or over 100k miles.

The one thing I didn't mention is the lack of carbon using CNG makes the engine lasts longer. Carbon in the oil acts as an abrasive. Also, now that I'm going down that road. CNG is not a liquid so it doesn't wash the lubrication from the cylinder walls, extending engine life also.

A diesel using a 25% injection you have to keep in mind that 75% is still diesel and expensive. If you need the grunt tow load capacity a diesel with CNG is perfect. I read about a guy that bumped the mix up to 50-50. He said he could go to the drag strip with it. He dialed it back down but just had to see what it would be like.

Nuclear? Hmmm.... My understanding is the waste is still like 500 degrees. I don't see why the lower grade spent fuel couldn't be used in some way before requiring reprocessing. Reprocessing apparently is not economically feasible. Most likely because we have had cheap oil for so many years. I guess as it is now, the storage at yucca mountain (even though it hasn't actually happened yet and may never) is a mistake. There has to be a way to use the waste on-site. Maybe they could provide hot water to an entire community. The cooling water used now just goes down the river. At prairie island the river doesn't freeze over anymore. Talk about changing the ecology of the river.

Warren I have 2 companies to keep up with. One that I want to do (CNG) and the other to put food on the table.

Comment by Oscar on May 17, 2009 at 10:00pm

Maybe I was a little long winded. It must be the clear mind thing.

Comment by Oscar on May 17, 2009 at 9:56pm

The formula for GGE (gasoline gallons equivalent) is arrived at by adding all the therm charges on your gas bill. The charges are split up into about 3 or 4 categories. Anyway, when you get the total, multiply it by 1.125. At my house CNG is $0.764 That was calculated off my April bill. Xcel Energy, Wabasha,MN. Regular gasoline is around 114,000btu but the ethanol added brings the btu content down to about 1125,000. A therm is 100,000btu.

The mileage of the vehicle is a whole other can. The Honda Civic GX was designed for CNG and has a 12.5/1 compression ratio and can get 35-40mpgge. It utilizes the 130 octane in CNG. The converted vehicles running engines designed for gasoline typically have 9/1 or 10/1 compression. (the old muscle cars ran high comp) The loss of efficiency due to the lower compression is about 2-3%. Then add the additional weight of the tank and components for the CNG at an average of 150 pounds. GM stated at the MREA energy fair many years ago that every 100 pounds affects the mileage 1 mpg.. So you can see that 2-3% + 1.5 mpg and you are probably losing about 8% mileage with gasoline designed engines. (I haven't actually calculated that to be precise but feel it is pretty close. Differing engines = differing economies.) The up side of the gasoline engine is that it is (usually) converted to a bi-fuel state so you can run on CNG but if you take a trip and can't refuel, when the CNG gets low it will automatically switch over to gasoline and you can keep going. The lack of infrastructure makes a bi-fuel shine. Diesels can be converted to dual fuel operation which is an injection of CNG with the diesel. It cleans up the emmissions, increases HP and lowers operation costs.

I have been interested in and studying these topics for years. That is why I became a Fuel Maker dealer before the masses and TBP came onto the scene, Sure am glad to see everyone waking up. I sometimes get rally irate over the mis-informationout there. Much of it is spread by alternative goals.

This summer (August? after the recess?) congress will be debating CNG proposed legislation that is before them. This is possibly the piece that brings CNG mainstream. The incentives for CNG vehicles (dedicated CNG and converted vehicles) will (hopefully) get the much needed tax credits and streamline the EPA regulations toward CNG.

It is all crystal clear after a few days in the woods collecting ramps and morels. A refreshed mind and tired legs.

Comment by Oscar on May 15, 2009 at 9:27pm

Codi, Most estimates seem to be in the 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas available. (not necessarly producible at this point). I saw one estimate of 117,000 trillion cubic feet. The latest theory of how oil is made is the decayed bodies of methanogens. The anerobic bacteria that makes methane. (natural gas) So as I say NG is older than oil and newer than compost. (NG is in a cow's gut) Yup, the the same bacteria.

Did you know that methane (NG) is a greenhouse gas? It is 20x less a greenhouse gas after it is burned. I say let's burn all we can.

Now lets talk about the future of renewable and sustainable natural gas. There is a college course (2year) for construction, technology and operations available at the Mid-States Technical College in Wisconsin Rapids, WI. There is a real surge of sustainable bio-digestion in landfill, sewage treatment, breweries, farms... and more. Many farms have been in operation with digesters for years. No one seems to talk about that though. Farms with digesters are littered all over the mid-west and beyond. A really interesting one is www.afuturefarm.com (or it might be .org) and it is not too far from us. Baldwin, WI

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