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Hi Dave
You pose some good questions.
Car makers have been making cars more efficient over
the years. Remember the gas guzzlers of the 50s?
Making cars 50% efficient is easy - selling them is
the fly in the ointment. They've been there and done
that!
Since decreasing mileage by 50% is such a great idea -
why not go for 75%?
Tax payers have footed the bill for many schemes.
Think Heavy Water - Prehaps you'll forgive them for a
little hestiancy on another scheme.
We could get into the food situation but the fish are
starting to rise.
Have a nice summer
Paul
--- David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com> wrote:
>
>
> Paul MacDonald wrote:
>
> >With the present biofuel developments going on
> white
> >clover can be expected to become one of the crops
> of
> >the future. It has a lot going for it even if the
> >moderator of this group says its not a suitable
> topic
> >for this form! If something is going to change
> nature
> >in NS in the near future - this is it!
> >
> Hi Paul & All, June 24, 2007
> I have tended to blot out current biofuels
> developments as so much
> March Hare antics (e.g. Why is using two
> petrochemical calories to
> produce one Ethanol calorie such a great idea ?
> Decreasing miles/gallon
> by 50% would have much the same effect and would not
> generate food riots
> in Mexico.) and perhaps this is why I don't get the
> connection between
> White Clover and biofuel.
>
> The one biofuel development that does make sense
> is enzymatic
> generation of Ethanol from long chain carbohydrates
> such as cellulose. A
> Canadian company (Iogen) has developed a lab scale
> process but has
> received no encouragement (funding) to proceed to an
> industrial scale
> prototype in Canada and (based on old news) is
> likely to build in
> Germany or the USA. Ths could also turn out to be a
> false start if it
> consumes more energy than it produces.
>
> Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
>
>
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