" From: Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx " " It's all very simple. " There is likely no one answer. " It will take many smaller answers grouped together to save us from ourselves... " Ethanol, Butanol, Solar, Wind Geothermal, Hydro, it will all come together if things work out right. yupper... biodiesel is an excellent choice for diesel and oil heat, because the entire conversion is just pouring it into the tank. butanol is the first bio option i've seen that matches that ease for spark engines - eg. can 'retrofit' a vast proportion of the existing car fleet -right-now-. ethanol cannot, but it has its place in making biodiesel even if nothing else. butanol can possibly also address the achilles heel of biodiesel, as it's apparently fully mixable without affecting ignition characteristics and lowers the 'wax point', which is fairly high for biodiesel [20-30 *f]. but for fixed consumers solar, wind, geo, hydro all have parts to play. i note with interest that some dams are being removed from rivers up here, for the benefit of fishermen. ________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Hay the genius nature internet rambler is to see what all have seen adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and think what none thought _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list