We need to start this conversation and develop reasonable policies to address. For more info, see 'Beyond Growth' by Daly, or any books by Gus Speth.

I belived as that happen Africa will also benefity from it because Climate Change effective our Nations if that happen will we be greatful.

Americans enjoy cheap energy compared to the Euros and the demand for alternate energy machines in the USA simple will not support a sizeable operation here in the states. So the people move offshore to where the demand is. When fuel costs as much per liter in Europe as it does per gallon in the USA that should tell you something about the demand situation.

I used to dance a lot in Dallas when I was single and I met a few foreigners in the dance halls. One lady was from
England and she was shocked that Americans were so laid b back about their waste disposal. She said the Brits save their newspapers and any small item what will burn and use these things for fuel to cook, heat water with or to heat a room. That might be pretty polluting but at least they were right on the conservation end of the equation. Waste not want not, as the old saying goes.

I am wondering, has anyone seen one of tose wind turbines with a vertical axis working lately? Some sort of avoirdupois rotor, pardon the spelling. This thing is based on an ancient principle and responds well to very low wind speeds compared to the style of turbine that sits high on a tower. There used to be one at a metal plating plant just north of Norman, Ok. along I-35, but they took it down and moved it away. The center axis became bent for some accidental reason. I enquired about the thing and the company had finally moved its operations to
Europe, possibly Spain. It did have a drawback, and that was that it needed a small electric motor to start its rotation so the blades could pick up the wind and make it go, but once it was running, which was at a speed of 30 rpm or so, the thing was very powerful. This particular one generated three phase AC power, which is commonly needed and used for heavy industrial applications.

The rotor is shaped like and egg beater attachment for a mixer or like a slicing onion that has a long root and stem section. If I remember correctly the blades would flex and change shape slightly as the wind velocity changed. High winds, a short fat onion shape, and low wind velocity a tall slender onion shape. This may have had something to do with maintaining a constant speed as the thing generated AC current as far as I can remember, something on the order of 220 Volts or more.

My Google is sleep this morning so I could not obtain a web reference for what I am describing, but I'll bet one of my wife's Anise cookies that something is on the web about this rotor turbine.

I understand your need for a large powerful truck rather than a light weight economy job. I grew up on a farm and we used our pickups for more than just personal transportation. At present I am still hanging on to a 26' RV trailer, and a little truck certainly wouldn't be strong enough to pull it or heavy enough to stop it, so you are correct in your thinking. However, to simply use a 1/2 ton pickup as a car, which is what many do here in the sticks, is fuelish. Young boys love to buy the older Chevies and Fords and put loud pipes on them. The kid in me likes that too but it doesn't make it a conservative thing to do. IMO a youngster smoking tobacco is about as irresponsible cost wise as driving a fuelish vehicle in that both habits really eat up the cash and both habits emit pollutants. Most kids cannot afford either habit and those that work part time spend most of their income on these things.

As to your comment on CO2 not being a pollutant, you raise a good point because plants use CO2 and in return give us oxygen. However, above certain concentrations the CO2 can be a pollutant, and that is what carbon sequestering and reduction is all about, keeping the level of CO2 down to a point that plant life can absorb enough of it to keep the concentration at a healthy level.

I like the idea of having an algae pond close to a power plant and feeding it with CO2 from the boiler exhausts. Recently there has been news of algae being used to make ethanol and other products, but as usual, it was from another country, maybe the Netherlands, and not from the USA. Americans tend to be fuelish because we don't know what it is to pay thru the nose for fuel like the Euros do.

And I think the recent dramatic reduction in the price of gasoline will work to derail or delay a number of good alternative energy projects. We need to keep the interest in carbon sequestering going if we are to continue to promote efficiency and conservation because once fuel comes down in price folks feel better and are reluctant to make the switch to alternate fuels.

It is surprising how many older people will not used E10,
and I think that is pure ignorance talking. I have used it since the late 80s when it became available in the Dallas area, which is doing something in an oil patch state like Texas. When those proud Dallasites started seeing smog hanging over their precious city they woke up to what pollution was and quit gloating about their clean air.

There is another fuel that is about as potent as gasoline, and that is butanol. In fact, it has many qualities that make it more eco friendly than gasoline. Apparently there is not a process at present to make it price competitive with gasoline.

I think people need to consider one reason why gasoline is so cost competitive compared to alternate fuels. Mother Nature has basically handed us the stuff, except for refining of the crude, where with alternate fuels we usally have to coax them from bio feedstocks. So give the biofuels a break as we have to transform them into a state that can be utilized in an engine and that does cost money. What we can do is to increase the efficiency of the vehicle that uses the biofuel in order to compensate for its lack of potency vs. gasoline, and a nice by product is a cleaner burning fuel that is more eco friendly.

I am not an enviro wacko although this morning I may be coming off like one. I simply want a fuel that minimizes the impact on the environment, that is affordable, and that is domestic in origin so we don't have to spill blood over a barrel of oil.