Sunday, October 19, 2008
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Sunday, October 19, 2008alternative fuel bloggerAlternative Fuels BlogTalking you through the world of Alternative Fuels…Moving Away from Food Source Ethanol – The Second Generation in NorwayInitially when countries began mandating specific ratios of gasoline to ethanol in car fuels, corn was and still is a predominant raw material of the ensuing ethanol. Although environmentalists eagerly welcomed the shift from fossil fuel to a cleaner burning, more sustainable ethanol-gasoline mix, the growing controversy over food source materials became a moral issue. Many opponents are now against using food as alternative fuels. Thus, organizations around the world are looking at ways to introduce second generation bio fuels; biodiesel and bioethanol made from sources other than food.In response to this point and also as a way to augment a deteriorating lumber industry, several groups and scientists from Norway are developing processes to turn wood chips into the oil needed to make ethanol. By the year 2010, gasoline and diesel sold in Norway will require close to six percent bio fuels in the mixture. And since there are so many timber farmers, it seems reasonable that wood chips should be used as the raw material for the resulting oil.Read More »Posted in Alternative Fuels, Ethanol Leave a commentThe Morality or Non-Morality of Bio FuelsBy allen 0ctober 19 2008One would expect the movement to find alternative fuels to be a welcomed cause. But as imminent as change is, the scramble to research and develop bio fuels has been fraught with controversy. So I decided to find out what could possibly make this topic so contentious and why so many powerful organizations are against the movement. I learned that generally speaking, the problem falls into three categories.First and foremost, politically the big players are going to squash any products that have received merit by way of government endorsements. For example, forcing gas companies to include a certain percentage of ethanol in the gas mix was not met in a welcoming manner. Moreover, car manufacturers have a vested interest in gasoline. If alternative car fuels gain a greater hold in the marketplace, carmakers will be forced to modify their equipment and their vehicles.Second, it appears that humanitarian groups feel that farmers must choose between food and non-food crops. By encouraging energy farms and the planting of crops for the sole use in bio fuels, people are being denied the needed farmlands for food. In essence, people will starve because growing and harvesting foods will not be as popular. Taking the logic one step further, they feel it is immoral to focus on fuels at all when so many people are starving. Both food stocks used for bio fuel and non-food crops are a waste because they are used to propel cars. With all the hunger in the world, why are we even thinking about bio fuels?Third, the environmentalists themselves have issues with the new crops being planted for creating ethanol. They insist that some of these crops are ruining eco-systems and the long-term environmental damage has not been properly assessed.It is true that it is impossible to please everyone.Posted in Alternative Fuels, Environment, Morality, Politics Leave a commentProduct Highlight - Heating with Java Fireplace LogsFor many years now, Brazil has been using blocks of discarded coffee beans as fuel in locomotives and as heating in factories. Apparently the country had such a surplus of coffee beans in the 1930s that they were throwing away bags of the beans into the sea until someone came up with the idea of forming the beans into bricks to burn as heat.Today, Jarden Home Brands in the US distributes Java-Log “the funky new fireplace item that has quickly become the people’s choice firelog … It offers a wonderful solution to the much detested chemical smell associated with other firelogs”. In addition to the soothing sweet smell, the logs produce fewer emissions than wood, are considered environmentally friendly as they are made from waste coffee beans, and they sound like a real wood fire.Read More »Posted in Alternative Fuels, Heating, Java Fireplace Logs Leave a commentMesquite to Power Farm EquipmentMesquite, a deciduous tree from Mexico and the US can be converted into ethanol, a grain based alcohol used in bio fuels. Today most cars and equipment using regular gasoline can actually run just as efficiently on a mix of gas and ethanol. In fact, the mix probably runs as high as ten percent ethanol without special engineering modifications. The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in Texas, USA, unveiled a mesquite harvesting machine at the 2006 Range and Wildlife Field Day.Although mesquite will probably not be used in a broad sense such as fueling everyday trucks and cars, it can be used to power farm equipment and private fleets. The actual downside to a larger scale use of mesquite fuel is the cost to transport it. And some are not sure that mesquite poses the same problem as chopping down other trees. Once those forests are destroyed, what happens?Read More »Posted in Alternative Fuels, Mesquite Leave a commentWelcome to Alternative Fuels BlogBy allen marteThe world is using too much fossil fuels. We all know it, and we all realize peakoil is just around the corner. The way forward is not using our cars less, or not heating our homes — it’s alternative fuels and finding better ways to use these fuels…The Alternative Fuels Blog will be talking about these alternative fuels, and we’ll hopefully be able to start in a couple days once we settle in…Again — welcome!Posted in Alternative Fuels
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Alternative Fuels BlogTalking you through the world of Alternative Fuels…Moving Away from Food Source Ethanol – The Second Generation in NorwayInitially when countries began mandating specific ratios of gasoline to ethanol in car fuels, corn was and still is a predominant raw material of the ensuing ethanol. Although environmentalists eagerly welcomed the shift from fossil fuel to a cleaner burning, more sustainable ethanol-gasoline mix, the growing controversy over food source materials became a moral issue. Many opponents are now against using food as alternative fuels. Thus, organizations around the world are looking at ways to introduce second generation bio fuels; biodiesel and bioethanol made from sources other than food.In response to this point and also as a way to augment a deteriorating lumber industry, several groups and scientists from Norway are developing processes to turn wood chips into the oil needed to make ethanol. By the year 2010, gasoline and diesel sold in Norway will require close to six percent bio fuels in the mixture. And since there are so many timber farmers, it seems reasonable that wood chips should be used as the raw material for the resulting oil.Read More »Posted in Alternative Fuels, Ethanol Leave a commentThe Morality or Non-Morality of Bio FuelsBy allen 0ctober 19 2008One would expect the movement to find alternative fuels to be a welcomed cause. But as imminent as change is, the scramble to research and develop bio fuels has been fraught with controversy. So I decided to find out what could possibly make this topic so contentious and why so many powerful organizations are against the movement. I learned that generally speaking, the problem falls into three categories.First and foremost, politically the big players are going to squash any products that have received merit by way of government endorsements. For example, forcing gas companies to include a certain percentage of ethanol in the gas mix was not met in a welcoming manner. Moreover, car manufacturers have a vested interest in gasoline. If alternative car fuels gain a greater hold in the marketplace, carmakers will be forced to modify their equipment and their vehicles.Second, it appears that humanitarian groups feel that farmers must choose between food and non-food crops. By encouraging energy farms and the planting of crops for the sole use in bio fuels, people are being denied the needed farmlands for food. In essence, people will starve because growing and harvesting foods will not be as popular. Taking the logic one step further, they feel it is immoral to focus on fuels at all when so many people are starving. Both food stocks used for bio fuel and non-food crops are a waste because they are used to propel cars. With all the hunger in the world, why are we even thinking about bio fuels?Third, the environmentalists themselves have issues with the new crops being planted for creating ethanol. They insist that some of these crops are ruining eco-systems and the long-term environmental damage has not been properly assessed.It is true that it is impossible to please everyone.Posted in Alternative Fuels, Environment, Morality, Politics Leave a commentProduct Highlight - Heating with Java Fireplace LogsFor many years now, Brazil has been using blocks of discarded coffee beans as fuel in locomotives and as heating in factories. Apparently the country had such a surplus of coffee beans in the 1930s that they were throwing away bags of the beans into the sea until someone came up with the idea of forming the beans into bricks to burn as heat.Today, Jarden Home Brands in the US distributes Java-Log “the funky new fireplace item that has quickly become the people’s choice firelog … It offers a wonderful solution to the much detested chemical smell associated with other firelogs”. In addition to the soothing sweet smell, the logs produce fewer emissions than wood, are considered environmentally friendly as they are made from waste coffee beans, and they sound like a real wood fire.Read More »Posted in Alternative Fuels, Heating, Java Fireplace Logs Leave a commentMesquite to Power Farm EquipmentMesquite, a deciduous tree from Mexico and the US can be converted into ethanol, a grain based alcohol used in bio fuels. Today most cars and equipment using regular gasoline can actually run just as efficiently on a mix of gas and ethanol. In fact, the mix probably runs as high as ten percent ethanol without special engineering modifications. The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in Texas, USA, unveiled a mesquite harvesting machine at the 2006 Range and Wildlife Field Day.Although mesquite will probably not be used in a broad sense such as fueling everyday trucks and cars, it can be used to power farm equipment and private fleets. The actual downside to a larger scale use of mesquite fuel is the cost to transport it. And some are not sure that mesquite poses the same problem as chopping down other trees. Once those forests are destroyed, what happens?Read More »Posted in Alternative Fuels, Mesquite Leave a commentWelcome to Alternative Fuels BlogBy allen marteThe world is using too much fossil fuels. We all know it, and we all realize peakoil is just around the corner. The way forward is not using our cars less, or not heating our homes — it’s alternative fuels and finding better ways to use these fuels…The Alternative Fuels Blog will be talking about these alternative fuels, and we’ll hopefully be able to start in a couple days once we settle in…Again — welcome!Posted in Alternative Fuels
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Alternative Fuels BlogTalking you through the world of Alternative Fuels…Moving Away from Food Source Ethanol – The Second Generation in NorwayInitially when countries began mandating specific ratios of gasoline to ethanol in car fuels, corn was and still is a predominant raw material of the ensuing ethanol. Although environmentalists eagerly welcomed the shift from fossil fuel to a cleaner burning, more sustainable ethanol-gasoline mix, the growing controversy over food source materials became a moral issue. Many opponents are now against using food as alternative fuels. Thus, organizations around the world are looking at ways to introduce second generation bio fuels; biodiesel and bioethanol made from sources other than food.In response to this point and also as a way to augment a deteriorating lumber industry, several groups and scientists from Norway are developing processes to turn wood chips into the oil needed to make ethanol. By the year 2010, gasoline and diesel sold in Norway will require close to six percent bio fuels in the mixture. And since there are so many timber farmers, it seems reasonable that wood chips should be used as the raw material for the resulting oil.Read More »Posted in Alternative Fuels, Ethanol Leave a commentThe Morality or Non-Morality of Bio FuelsBy allen 0ctober 19 2008One would expect the movement to find alternative fuels to be a welcomed cause. But as imminent as change is, the scramble to research and develop bio fuels has been fraught with controversy. So I decided to find out what could possibly make this topic so contentious and why so many powerful organizations are against the movement. I learned that generally speaking, the problem falls into three categories.First and foremost, politically the big players are going to squash any products that have received merit by way of government endorsements. For example, forcing gas companies to include a certain percentage of ethanol in the gas mix was not met in a welcoming manner. Moreover, car manufacturers have a vested interest in gasoline. If alternative car fuels gain a greater hold in the marketplace, carmakers will be forced to modify their equipment and their vehicles.Second, it appears that humanitarian groups feel that farmers must choose between food and non-food crops. By encouraging energy farms and the planting of crops for the sole use in bio fuels, people are being denied the needed farmlands for food. In essence, people will starve because growing and harvesting foods will not be as popular. Taking the logic one step further, they feel it is immoral to focus on fuels at all when so many people are starving. Both food stocks used for bio fuel and non-food crops are a waste because they are used to propel cars. With all the hunger in the world, why are we even thinking about bio fuels?Third, the environmentalists themselves have issues with the new crops being planted for creating ethanol. They insist that some of these crops are ruining eco-systems and the long-term environmental damage has not been properly assessed.It is true that it is impossible to please everyone.Posted in Alternative Fuels, Environment, Morality, Politics Leave a commentProduct Highlight - Heating with Java Fireplace LogsFor many years now, Brazil has been using blocks of discarded coffee beans as fuel in locomotives and as heating in factories. Apparently the country had such a surplus of coffee beans in the 1930s that they were throwing away bags of the beans into the sea until someone came up with the idea of forming the beans into bricks to burn as heat.Today, Jarden Home Brands in the US distributes Java-Log “the funky new fireplace item that has quickly become the people’s choice firelog … It offers a wonderful solution to the much detested chemical smell associated with other firelogs”. In addition to the soothing sweet smell, the logs produce fewer emissions than wood, are considered environmentally friendly as they are made from waste coffee beans, and they sound like a real wood fire.Read More »Posted in Alternative Fuels, Heating, Java Fireplace Logs Leave a commentMesquite to Power Farm EquipmentMesquite, a deciduous tree from Mexico and the US can be converted into ethanol, a grain based alcohol used in bio fuels. Today most cars and equipment using regular gasoline can actually run just as efficiently on a mix of gas and ethanol. In fact, the mix probably runs as high as ten percent ethanol without special engineering modifications. The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in Texas, USA, unveiled a mesquite harvesting machine at the 2006 Range and Wildlife Field Day.Although mesquite will probably not be used in a broad sense such as fueling everyday trucks and cars, it can be used to power farm equipment and private fleets. The actual downside to a larger scale use of mesquite fuel is the cost to transport it. And some are not sure that mesquite poses the same problem as chopping down other trees. Once those forests are destroyed, what happens?Read More »Posted in Alternative Fuels, Mesquite Leave a commentWelcome to Alternative Fuels BlogBy allen marteThe world is using too much fossil fuels. We all know it, and we all realize peakoil is just around the corner. The way forward is not using our cars less, or not heating our homes — it’s alternative fuels and finding better ways to use these fuels…The Alternative Fuels Blog will be talking about these alternative fuels, and we’ll hopefully be able to start in a couple days once we settle in…Again — welcome!Posted in Alternative Fuels
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Talking you through the world of Alternative Fuels…
Moving Away from Food Source Ethanol – The Second Generation in Norway
Initially when countries began mandating specific ratios of gasoline to ethanol in car fuels, corn was and still is a predominant raw material of the ensuing ethanol. Although environmentalists eagerly welcomed the shift from fossil fuel to a cleaner burning, more sustainable ethanol-gasoline mix, the growing controversy over food source materials became a moral issue. Many opponents are now against using food as alternative fuels. Thus, organizations around the world are looking at ways to introduce second generation bio fuels; biodiesel and bioethanol made from sources other than food.
In response to this point and also as a way to augment a deteriorating lumber industry, several groups and scientists from Norway are developing processes to turn wood chips into the oil needed to make ethanol. By the year 2010, gasoline and diesel sold in Norway will require close to six percent bio fuels in the mixture. And since there are so many timber farmers, it seems reasonable that wood chips should be used as the raw material for the resulting oil.
Read More »
Posted in Alternative Fuels, Ethanol Leave a comment
The Morality or Non-Morality of Bio Fuels
By allen 0ctober 19 2008
One would expect the movement to find alternative fuels to be a welcomed cause. But as imminent as change is, the scramble to research and develop bio fuels has been fraught with controversy. So I decided to find out what could possibly make this topic so contentious and why so many powerful organizations are against the movement. I learned that generally speaking, the problem falls into three categories.
First and foremost, politically the big players are going to squash any products that have received merit by way of government endorsements. For example, forcing gas companies to include a certain percentage of ethanol in the gas mix was not met in a welcoming manner. Moreover, car manufacturers have a vested interest in gasoline. If alternative car fuels gain a greater hold in the marketplace, carmakers will be forced to modify their equipment and their vehicles.
Second, it appears that humanitarian groups feel that farmers must choose between food and non-food crops. By encouraging energy farms and the planting of crops for the sole use in bio fuels, people are being denied the needed farmlands for food. In essence, people will starve because growing and harvesting foods will not be as popular. Taking the logic one step further, they feel it is immoral to focus on fuels at all when so many people are starving. Both food stocks used for bio fuel and non-food crops are a waste because they are used to propel cars. With all the hunger in the world, why are we even thinking about bio fuels?
Third, the environmentalists themselves have issues with the new crops being planted for creating ethanol. They insist that some of these crops are ruining eco-systems and the long-term environmental damage has not been properly assessed.
It is true that it is impossible to please everyone.
Posted in Alternative Fuels, Environment, Morality, Politics Leave a comment
Product Highlight - Heating with Java Fireplace Logs
For many years now, Brazil has been using blocks of discarded coffee beans as fuel in locomotives and as heating in factories. Apparently the country had such a surplus of coffee beans in the 1930s that they were throwing away bags of the beans into the sea until someone came up with the idea of forming the beans into bricks to burn as heat.
Today, Jarden Home Brands in the US distributes Java-Log “the funky new fireplace item that has quickly become the people’s choice firelog … It offers a wonderful solution to the much detested chemical smell associated with other firelogs”. In addition to the soothing sweet smell, the logs produce fewer emissions than wood, are considered environmentally friendly as they are made from waste coffee beans, and they sound like a real wood fire.
Read More »
Posted in Alternative Fuels, Heating, Java Fireplace Logs Leave a comment
Mesquite to Power Farm Equipment
Mesquite, a deciduous tree from Mexico and the US can be converted into ethanol, a grain based alcohol used in bio fuels. Today most cars and equipment using regular gasoline can actually run just as efficiently on a mix of gas and ethanol. In fact, the mix probably runs as high as ten percent ethanol without special engineering modifications. The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in Texas, USA, unveiled a mesquite harvesting machine at the 2006 Range and Wildlife Field Day.
Although mesquite will probably not be used in a broad sense such as fueling everyday trucks and cars, it can be used to power farm equipment and private fleets. The actual downside to a larger scale use of mesquite fuel is the cost to transport it. And some are not sure that mesquite poses the same problem as chopping down other trees. Once those forests are destroyed, what happens?
Read More »
Posted in Alternative Fuels, Mesquite Leave a comment
Welcome to Alternative Fuels Blog
By allen marte
The world is using too much fossil fuels. We all know it, and we all realize peakoil is just around the corner. The way forward is not using our cars less, or not heating our homes — it’s alternative fuels and finding better ways to use these fuels…
The Alternative Fuels Blog will be talking about these alternative fuels, and we’ll hopefully be able to start in a couple days once we settle in…
Again — welcome!Posted in Alternative Fuels
Talking you through the world of Alternative Fuels…
Moving Away from Food Source Ethanol – The Second Generation in Norway
Initially when countries began mandating specific ratios of gasoline to ethanol in car fuels, corn was and still is a predominant raw material of the ensuing ethanol. Although environmentalists eagerly welcomed the shift from fossil fuel to a cleaner burning, more sustainable ethanol-gasoline mix, the growing controversy over food source materials became a moral issue. Many opponents are now against using food as alternative fuels. Thus, organizations around the world are looking at ways to introduce second generation bio fuels; biodiesel and bioethanol made from sources other than food.
In response to this point and also as a way to augment a deteriorating lumber industry, several groups and scientists from Norway are developing processes to turn wood chips into the oil needed to make ethanol. By the year 2010, gasoline and diesel sold in Norway will require close to six percent bio fuels in the mixture. And since there are so many timber farmers, it seems reasonable that wood chips should be used as the raw material for the resulting oil.
Read More »
Posted in Alternative Fuels, Ethanol Leave a comment
The Morality or Non-Morality of Bio Fuels
By allen 0ctober 19 2008
One would expect the movement to find alternative fuels to be a welcomed cause. But as imminent as change is, the scramble to research and develop bio fuels has been fraught with controversy. So I decided to find out what could possibly make this topic so contentious and why so many powerful organizations are against the movement. I learned that generally speaking, the problem falls into three categories.
First and foremost, politically the big players are going to squash any products that have received merit by way of government endorsements. For example, forcing gas companies to include a certain percentage of ethanol in the gas mix was not met in a welcoming manner. Moreover, car manufacturers have a vested interest in gasoline. If alternative car fuels gain a greater hold in the marketplace, carmakers will be forced to modify their equipment and their vehicles.
Second, it appears that humanitarian groups feel that farmers must choose between food and non-food crops. By encouraging energy farms and the planting of crops for the sole use in bio fuels, people are being denied the needed farmlands for food. In essence, people will starve because growing and harvesting foods will not be as popular. Taking the logic one step further, they feel it is immoral to focus on fuels at all when so many people are starving. Both food stocks used for bio fuel and non-food crops are a waste because they are used to propel cars. With all the hunger in the world, why are we even thinking about bio fuels?
Third, the environmentalists themselves have issues with the new crops being planted for creating ethanol. They insist that some of these crops are ruining eco-systems and the long-term environmental damage has not been properly assessed.
It is true that it is impossible to please everyone.
Posted in Alternative Fuels, Environment, Morality, Politics Leave a comment
Product Highlight - Heating with Java Fireplace Logs
For many years now, Brazil has been using blocks of discarded coffee beans as fuel in locomotives and as heating in factories. Apparently the country had such a surplus of coffee beans in the 1930s that they were throwing away bags of the beans into the sea until someone came up with the idea of forming the beans into bricks to burn as heat.
Today, Jarden Home Brands in the US distributes Java-Log “the funky new fireplace item that has quickly become the people’s choice firelog … It offers a wonderful solution to the much detested chemical smell associated with other firelogs”. In addition to the soothing sweet smell, the logs produce fewer emissions than wood, are considered environmentally friendly as they are made from waste coffee beans, and they sound like a real wood fire.
Read More »
Posted in Alternative Fuels, Heating, Java Fireplace Logs Leave a comment
Mesquite to Power Farm Equipment
Mesquite, a deciduous tree from Mexico and the US can be converted into ethanol, a grain based alcohol used in bio fuels. Today most cars and equipment using regular gasoline can actually run just as efficiently on a mix of gas and ethanol. In fact, the mix probably runs as high as ten percent ethanol without special engineering modifications. The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in Texas, USA, unveiled a mesquite harvesting machine at the 2006 Range and Wildlife Field Day.
Although mesquite will probably not be used in a broad sense such as fueling everyday trucks and cars, it can be used to power farm equipment and private fleets. The actual downside to a larger scale use of mesquite fuel is the cost to transport it. And some are not sure that mesquite poses the same problem as chopping down other trees. Once those forests are destroyed, what happens?
Read More »
Posted in Alternative Fuels, Mesquite Leave a comment
Welcome to Alternative Fuels Blog
By allen marte
The world is using too much fossil fuels. We all know it, and we all realize peakoil is just around the corner. The way forward is not using our cars less, or not heating our homes — it’s alternative fuels and finding better ways to use these fuels…
The Alternative Fuels Blog will be talking about these alternative fuels, and we’ll hopefully be able to start in a couple days once we settle in…
Again — welcome!Posted in Alternative Fuels
Sunday, September 21, 2008
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The movie “JOHN Q” the American citizine insurance policy about patients not being covered by the health maintenance organization and also a protest against hidden procedures of many of today’s insurance companies. This is for that the agreement covers only the professional services which are only the doctors who have agreed with the contract...... the expenses and asked by the hospital to have their payments in cash. The surgery will cost $250,000 and for his son to be put on top of the list doThe movie is all about with a man whose name is John Q. Archibald and his son whose been diagnosed with a heart enlargement and finds out that his son cannot have a transplant because of HMO will not cover nors will cost $75,000. John was just an average man who works for a factory and his wife works on a supermarket, unfortunately they cannot afford to have their son be cured so but still John is eager to raise money for his son. He sold almost all of his stuffs and even asked money to some of his friends. But one day the doctors decided to release his son from the hospital because of him not able to provide further more financial needs. He had no choice but to take the doctor and the rest of the employees of the hospital as a hostages on a Saturday morning. All he want is to have his son’s name on the donor’s list and then he will surrender, but still the police was trying to not to give the John’s request and also tried to assassinate him. The assassination was not successful and john realizes that the police wanted him dead so he decided to bring his son to same hospital with him and have his heart to be transplanted to his son. At a very sudden the hospital decided to put his son on the donor’s list in good faith. And a lady died because of a car accident and has the same heart as his son’s. John was almost to trigger the gun to his head then suddenly someone called in saying that they already have the heart for his son and will do the surgery in good faith. Everything was in a nick of time and both John and his son survived. John was guilty of hostage and was imprisoned. The movie was so great that it was able to criticize such system trough a drama type of life story. And it also inspire many politiciance to have a protest against this selfish system.
Monday, September 15, 2008
" JOHN Q"
my reaction all about the movie.
in the title JOHN Q very beautifull and meaning movie because the character namely john q, i saw very helpful to their son... do all the best of his son.....
and when the time came when he needed to donate his own heart to his son,
he did!nt think twice for giving his life to his son....................
the movie or story was very beautiful from the start until the end.
because yuo can get many moral from the story.....................
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