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See our plan to reduce dependence on oil by buidling a network of renewable energy produced hydrogen fuel. Our plan allows us to produce $1.95 per gallon eqv. pretax.
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- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- We have started a grassroots effort to build a network of renewable energy produced hydrogen fueling stations.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- Eliminating dependence on foreign oil.
- What do you want to do to help?
- Mutual plan distribution.
Help spread the word about alternative transportation fuel that is available now. Renewable energy produced on site hydrogen fuel that has 0 emissions and is priced at $1.95 per gallon pretax eqv can be available for everyone with participation.
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Great Video From DC Alternative Vehicles Gathering
Check out this interview with a GM Equinox Driver in DC.
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7392808
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7392808
Posted on April 24, 2009 at 6:30am —
Renewable Energy Hydrogen Fueling Stations with $1.95 per gallon Eqv Fuel
Check out his post of comments from Larry Burns VP of GM Advanced Design Group from autobloggreen.com:
Larry Burns says H2 cars are ready, calls on government and energy industry to provide hydrogen supply
Posted Apr 1st 2008 at 8:01PM by Sam Abuelsamid
Filed under: Hydrogen, GM
During a keynote speech at the National Hydrogen Association conference in Sacramento, CA, GM's VP for Research and Development declared automotive fuel cell technology ready. However he said it can't move forward wit… Continue
Larry Burns says H2 cars are ready, calls on government and energy industry to provide hydrogen supply
Posted Apr 1st 2008 at 8:01PM by Sam Abuelsamid
Filed under: Hydrogen, GM
During a keynote speech at the National Hydrogen Association conference in Sacramento, CA, GM's VP for Research and Development declared automotive fuel cell technology ready. However he said it can't move forward wit… Continue
Posted on August 7, 2008 at 8:32am — 2 Comments
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Happy New Year John,
Last year I helped so many members of Pickens Plan learn about personal home energy plans. It's all about conservation of power, and home power generation, things I have been doing at my residence to lower my electricity costs. Send me a friend request a to add me John, I'd be honored to have you as a friend here.
BTW, Texas: I just posted an article link on my pickens page about Home Wind Systems in Texas. Your state's representatives, governor, and public utility commission officials are not in your corner with this "weak policy" on Net Metering. Instead they have the tables turned against green power for businesses and homeowners. Texas has created multiple sets of rules for loopholes and you have less rights than people in other states. You should read that article, important.
I just wanted to personally introduce myself. And I hope you are having a great day!
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Mike
Wow thats great!!! Hydrogen is the future.I will have to see this technology first hand.Will these stations produce the hydrogen on site or will they be like tank stations?I will check out the site and tell everyone.
Texans unite!
Mike Cutler
Cutler Real Estate Services
Venture capital got a prime-time spot at the Democratic National Convention when Nancy Floyd, founder and managing director of Nth Power, a San Francisco clean-tech venture capital firm, addressed the crowd Tuesday.
She argued that Barack Obama’s energy policy would help energy entrepreneurs and the nation’s economy. Ms. Floyd lobbied on behalf of start-up companies with technologies that address the energy crunch. “There are thousands of entrepreneurs with new solutions and investors are lining up to back them,” she said. “What’s missing is leadership from Washington.”
She compared green technology to the early days of information technology. “Green technology is where the computer industry was in 1984, the year the Macintosh computer was introduced,” she said. “Think about how far we’ve come since then, and that’s how far-reaching and transformational green technology will be.”
Investments in solar and wind companies have already paved the way for the creation of 2.4 million new jobs, she said, but only 10 percent are in the United States, and alternative energy companies in the United States are turning to countries like Spain, Germany and China to manufacture and sell their products.
“That’s because other countries have smart, stable, forward-looking energy policies,” she said. Ms. Floyd, who is based in Portland, Ore., founded Nth Power in 1997, long before alternative energy became the hot sector for venture investors. The firm has $420 million under management in four funds.
Ms. Floyd founded one of the first wind development companies in 1982 and sold it three years later.
Watch a video interview with Ms. Floyd here: http://gallery1.demconvention.com/Default.html?VideoID=496#
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Last December, Congress amended the national Renewable Fuel Standard, setting a goal that the U.S. will produce a whopping 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel by 2022. It's no surprise that much of this renewable fuel will be ethanol.
Given the rapid industrialization of Asia, global demand for fuel ethanol is steeply increasing and is expected to do so in the foreseeable future. In order to satisfy this big demand, let alone meet the Renewable Fuel Standard, there is a growing concern that the standard U.S. practice of mass producing fuel ethanol from corn won't be feasible. There simply isn't enough corn acreage available in America to meet the future domestic and international demands for fuel ethanol.
Scientists contend that the answer to this problem is cellulosic ethanol, a technology that is now under furious research and development at many universities, national labs, and private industries across the globe.
This is an interesting technology, because it makes ethanol from cellulose feedstocks such as ordinary trees, perennial grass and cropland residues instead of food crops such as corn or sugar cane.
Scientists contend that cellulosic ethanol, once it is perfected, can significantly reduce America's imports of foreign oil, while creating a big variety of "green collar" jobs including farmers, truck drivers, business professionals, engineers, and scientists.
Before cellulosic ethanol becomes a commercial reality, there are many technology hurdles to overcome. Crop scientists and chemical engineers are furiously studying the genetics, the molecular structure, and other biological aspects of trees and plants in order to improve the efficiency of cellulosic ethanol production.
Last year, our country embarked on a once-in-a-generation effort to study the underlying science needed to improve processing efficiency. In the meantime, scientists are making great headway. For example, the U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded $125 million to establish the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, a partnership between Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin, to study the science of processing cellulosic ethanol.
Also, Michigan State University and Michigan Technological University recently partnered with the Mascoma Corp. (a Massachusetts company), to build a cellulosic ethanol plant in the Michigan Upper Peninsula.
Last May, at a scientific lecture in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Dr. Niels Lagvad of Danish Biogasol Corp. (www.biogasol.com). It was revealed that this company now has a proven, turnkey system to mass produce ethanol from a big range of perennial grasses and hemicellulosic feedstocks. He referred to the process as a "bolt-on, second-generation ethanol plant" which, in essence, attaches to the back end of a conventional plant making ethanol from food crops. "Second generation ethanol" refers to the use of non-food feedstocks to make ethanol, whereas, "first generation ethanol" refers to traditional methods that use food crops such as corn and sugar cane.
The immediate U.S. market for this Danish technology is to retrofit American corn-to-ethanol plants. In this concept, corn stover (corn leaves, stalks, and cobs) and distillers' grain (a voluminous, natural by-product of the corn-to-ethanol process) would be used as inexpensive feedstocks for ethanol production. The technology is now in the demonstration phase; a full-scale plant is planned for 2010 in Boardman, Ore., as part of a joint effort between the U.S. Department of Energy and the Pacific Ethanol Corp.
Danish Biogasol also markets the same technology to electric power plants, regardless of whether the electric plant is fueled by coal, nuclear, natural gas or oil. Why this terrific market? Electric plants routinely produce massive amounts of waste heat. This waste heat is harnessed by the ethanol plant, which in turn greatly reduces the cost of ethanol processing. Imagine a line of semi-trucks, all loaded with massive bales of locally grown perennial grass, driving to the local electric plant - which makes fuel ethanol too.
I am excited to imagine where this technology is headed because America is blessed with abundant trees and native grass. I believe we're in for some hopeful times ahead: new jobs from locally made auto fuel with no imported oil.
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