Brin-l Digest, Vol 381, Issue 3

[Ronn! Blankenship]

At 07:19 AM Thursday 5/15/2008, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>Dan M. wrote:
> >
> > It makes sense, that if you take 30% of the supply off the market,
> > prices will rise substantially.
> >
> > Brazil is doing similar things with sugar cane ethanol.
> >
>The difference is that Brazil begun the sugar cane program decades
>ago. At that time, there was also an option to try a biodiesel
>program, but it was considered economically (and, probably,
>politically - we were under a relatively totalitarian dictatorship
>then) inviable.


On the local news tonight they had a story about a demonstration 
program from one of the state universities to demonstrate the 
production of electricity from wood chip waste.  The apparatus is set 
up in a trailer so they can take it to different places to 
demonstrate it.  According to the story the system could produce 
enough electricity to run three or four typical houses for a 
day.  They were talking about how the system could also produce gas 
to power a vehicle . . . what I wondered which was never addressed 
during the news piece was whether the apparatus in the trailer could 
produce enough fuel to fuel the truck hauling the trailer around the 
state . . .


. . . ronn!  :)