We’re waiting for hydrogen cars. We’re waiting for centralized sources of batteries for electric cars. We’re waiting for breakthroughs in solar efficiencies. We don’t have to wait for solar, its here, efficient and useful, even tho we have limited year round sunshine.
We don’t have to wait to grow crops that can be used in a permaculture designed system that produces our own fuels. Fuels that can extend gasoline supplies, clean up the environment, produce jobs, and good returns on investments.
Selected highlights from http://www.alcoholcanbeagas.com/
“Farmer-owned cooperatives now produce the majority of alcohol fuel in the U.S. Farmer-owners pay themselves premium prices for their corn and then pay themselves a dividend on the alcohol profit.”
“Alcohol fuel has been added to gasoline to reduce virtually every class of air pollution. Adding as little as 5–10% alcohol can reduce carbon monoxide from gasoline exhaust dramatically. ”
“Alcohol carries none of the heavy metals and sulfuric acid that gasoline and diesel exhausts do. ”
Brazil, the fifth largest country in the world imports no oil, since half its cars run on alcohol fuel made from sugarcane, grown on 1% of its land.
No new technological breakthroughs are needed. We can make alcohol fuel out of what we have, where we are. Alcohol fuel can efficiently be made out of many things, from waste products like stale donuts, grass clippings, food processing waste-even ocean kelp.
Unmodified cars can run on 50% alcohol. Alcohol is a superior fuel to gasoline! It’s 105 octane, burns much cooler. Henry Ford’s early cars were all flex-fuel.
The byproducts of alcohol production are clean, they can make petrochemical fertilizers and herbicides obsolete. It’s so nutritious that when used as animal feed, it produces more meat or milk than the corn it comes from.
That’s right, fermentation of corn increases the food supply and lowers the cost of food.
Alcohol production brings many new small-scale business opportunities. There is huge potential for profitable local, integrated, small-scale businesses that produce alcohol and related byproducts, whereas when gas was cheap, alcohol plants had to be huge to make a profit.
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Can we make Orcas Island Energy independent in 9 years. Yes. we can.
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