Comments on: Kleiner Perkins' 5 Biofuel Bets

By: Gail Feddern

Gail Feddern — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:33:41 +0000

At last! Someone who feels exactly as I do about methane gas. Residential sewage and farm sewage should be kept separate from factory wastes. The sewage should be combined with grass clippings and tree trimmings in anaerobic digesters to produce methane gas, which would then be compressed like LPG and used to run electric power plants. The technology is there. Why aren't we using it? Ram Bux Singh in India developed the anerobic digester back in the 60s or 70s. A large hog farm (in Africa?) runs off self-produced methane gas. A man in England developed a carburator to run cars off methane gas or LPG; he used it on his own truck, and he manufactured these carburators and sold them by mail order. This also was way back during our first gasolene crisis. Not recycling shit to make methane gas, yet wasting food like corn to make ethanol is so wrong-headed!

By: walter farrand

walter farrand — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:42:42 +0000

how come nothing is said about the use of methane gas. As a person who is retired, and worked in many of sewage prossing plants thruout Ma,I’ve witnessed the waste of ignighting methane to the atmosphere.This to me is a complete waste. If somehow this methane that is just ignighted and sent to the ozone layer giving no one of it’s potential truly amazes me! Nat gas is methane,the only difference is nat gas has been under the surface for millions of years. Every city,town state in the u.s.a.,people eat to survive on earth.Whenever we eat our body takes the nutrition out of the food and the remainder gos into the toilet as waste, which produces methane,which gives us a choice, harness this byproduct and connect it to the existing nat gas lines thruout the country. It would create more work creating jobs,maintaining the new service, which helps the middle class or say blue collar workers that created this great country,and lessens our dependance on the huge ships loaded with nat gas under pressure that enter our major waterways,that we all know could be a prime target for teroists who hate us.When Germany was at war in ww2 they needed to provide the people with a way to heat and cook there food to survive the war.They converted to the peoples waste to make the populas survive by this method allowing all patroliam to go to the war effort,and it worked.In ma.there was a jail aside a sewage plant (deer Island),they harnessed the methane (or waste from47 citys and communitys) and provided heat and electricty to the jail until it’s ruination for a rebuilding of a larger waste treatment plant that still today burns methane to the atmosphere ,with no benifit to the populas,that still puts everyone at risk for #1terrisiom,#2bottom line greed everybody eats,disposes waste creating more methane that they have to charge us for,when were loosing more energy potential than all the windmills that they could put on this beautiful country we have,or do nothing and let the oil compans have there way as today and take the greed rather to help this u.s.of a.,that I love,,,look into it and you’ll see what I’m getting at google methane p.s. pardon the spelling i’m new at this shit,but I hope you’ll check this out,It’s another scam by big oil…w.f.

By: Primer: Brazilian Biofuels « Earth2Tech

Primer: Brazilian Biofuels « Earth2Tech — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:48:40 +0000

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By: Web

Web — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:23:23 +0000

Green energy is definitely the best solution in most cases. Technology like solar energy, wind power, fuel cells, zaps electric vehicles, EV hybrids, etc have come so far recently. Green energy even costs way less than oil and gas in many cases.