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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Maybe--But Not Sure What to Organize
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- Ethanol and Methane (NG)
- What excites you about this campaign?
- That it is garnering attention.
- What do you want to do to help?
- I am already working on a plan to use waste land, such as empty gravel pits or certain types of mine tailing piles to grow cattails on primary treated waste water, turning a series of problems into multiple benefits.
Generating Methane, Ethanol, and water treated to tertiary levels to use without nitrates and phosphates contained in sewage. If every city and town were to use this program requiring about ten sections per US County, the net energy benefit should be about 100 Billion gallons of methane and 50 Billion gallons of ethanol equivalent.
That is enough net energy to totally replace all the gasoline we currently use.
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Therefore, I have one location for a blog: http://roberto-de-sonora.blogspot.com/
Other places I hang out: http://acbagnetwork.ning.com/ Do it Yourself Ethanol.
Therefore, I have one location for a blog: http://roberto-de-sonora.blogspot.com/
Other places I hang out: http://acbagnetwork.ning.com/ Do it Yourself Ethanol.
Posted on July 21, 2008 at 1:30am —
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Thanks for the Encouragement!
One of my mentors is Permaculturist David Blume.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/423.html
We can build a better world by working together, rather that blowing up each other. Former Governor Jesse Ventura is another inspiration to me.
Hope to hear more from you.
Donna
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Robert - I've seen many of your posts & am requesting you as a friend - hope you'll accept
* Rocky Truth Patrol says:
* This is shaky only because it's an economic estimate based on a job category that no one officially tracks - at least not yet. And depending on which economic models are used to make these estimates, Obama's forecast of 5 million green-collar jobs might actually be too low, some experts think.
Obama says his administration would invest $150 billion over 10 years in a "clean energy economy" and "help the private sector create 5 million new green jobs."
Obama takes his figures from two recent studies. The University of California at Berkeley said energy efficiency alone could create 5 million jobs nationwide in the next decade. Note that this study counts jobs created directly in this field, but also indirect jobs created by the demands of the new workers and "induced" jobs created by overall growth in the economy.
The University of Tennessee recently estimated that 5.1 million new jobs could be created by 2025 if the nation got a quarter of its energy from renewable sources. That job number also includes indirect jobs.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the nation should expect 15.6 million new jobs in the decade between 2006 and 2016. Adding 5 million "green" jobs would represent just a 3 percent boost in the total employment, which hovers at about 150 million.
The Apollo Alliance, a nonpartisan organization of business, labor, environmental and community leaders, has said they wouldn't count indirect jobs, as do the studies on which Obama relies. However, spokesman Keith Schneider said the alliance actually believes, based on analysis of these studies and others, that the 5 million figure might be too low.
"It's going to be more than that," Schneider said. "The demand for this sector of the economy way outpaces the capacity."
For example, Schneider said, wind energy - a big issue for Coloradans - is facing a capacity crunch because there is currently a three-year backlog for the plate steel needed to make the wind turbine blades. The industry needs people to make the steel, then the blades, then install them, then maintain them, he said. But federal policies - including a tax credit that has expired before and is about to expire again - have made business bumpy, he said.
"The Apollo Alliance's research on the jobs question shows us clearly that if the United States pursues a new national economic development strategy to replace fossil fuels with clean sources of energy and the tools to use them, the economy will generate 5 million new jobs, and likely much more than that," Schneider said.
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I'm racing getting errands done till Wed. I have some questions
I will contact on Wed
Ron S
We are going to need every source of energy we can make. I see a slight variance to Boone's plan which would benefit us even more.
We could blend ethanol with kerosene for jet aviation. 20/80 for take off, run 80/20 above 12,000 as jet engines get better MPG on ethanol at altitude since there is lots of oxygen in ethanol which is a benefit at altitude. Far cleaner air too.
Use methane for ground transport.
I suspect 100 billion gallons of methane potential from sewage grown cattails can make a great contribution to our energy needs.
The plan is laid out in "Alcohol can be a Gas" by David Blume. We do not need a single acre of prime farm land to do this.