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Biofuels - for the temperate climate, alcohol derived from Jerusalem artichokes or waste orchard fruit appears to be the proven, sustainable route of fueling cities. Crop productivity and fuel usage calculations indicate that most cities, worldwide, scale in size in such a fashion that they can produce all their vehicle fuel needs from a land area equivalent to the size of the city - as long as this calculation is not based on the inefficient, though touted, alcohol from corn - but on perennial crops such as Jerusalem artichokes. This would not contribute to the food-or-fuel scenario that detractors of this proposition point out. Key: this is proven technology, and vehicles can run on alcohol with minor modifications. In the tropics, palm oil appears to be the solution for fuel needs, based on yields. | Biofuels - for the temperate climate, alcohol derived from Jerusalem artichokes or waste orchard fruit appears to be the proven, sustainable route of fueling cities. Crop productivity and fuel usage calculations indicate that most cities, worldwide, scale in size in such a fashion that they can produce all their vehicle fuel needs from a land area equivalent to the size of the city - as long as this calculation is not based on the inefficient, though touted, alcohol from corn - but on perennial crops such as Jerusalem artichokes. This would not contribute to the food-or-fuel scenario that detractors of this proposition point out. Key: this is proven technology, and vehicles can run on alcohol with minor modifications. In the tropics, palm oil appears to be the solution for fuel needs, based on yields. | ||
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Revision as of 19:05, 15 February 2011
Biofuels - for the temperate climate, alcohol derived from Jerusalem artichokes or waste orchard fruit appears to be the proven, sustainable route of fueling cities. Crop productivity and fuel usage calculations indicate that most cities, worldwide, scale in size in such a fashion that they can produce all their vehicle fuel needs from a land area equivalent to the size of the city - as long as this calculation is not based on the inefficient, though touted, alcohol from corn - but on perennial crops such as Jerusalem artichokes. This would not contribute to the food-or-fuel scenario that detractors of this proposition point out. Key: this is proven technology, and vehicles can run on alcohol with minor modifications. In the tropics, palm oil appears to be the solution for fuel needs, based on yields.
Collaboration
Review of Project Status
Biofuels - Current Work
Biofuels - Developments Needed
Biofuels - General
Biofuels - Specific
Biofuels - Background Debriefing
Biofuels - Information Work
What is required to distill the alcohol?
Where will the energy come from to distill the alcohol?
What is the fruit to alcohol ratio?
I've visited plum brandy distilleries and they said that it was a 50:1 ratio...--Dennis 08:15, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Biofuels - Hardware Work
Biofuels - Sign-in
Development Work Template
- Biofuels - Product Definition
- Biofuels - General
- Biofuels - General Scope
- Biofuels - Product Ecology
- Biofuels - Enterprise Options
- Biofuels - Development Approach
- Biofuels - Deliverables and Product Specifications
- Biofuels - Industry Standards
- Biofuels - Market and Market Segmentation
- Biofuels - Salient Features and Keys to Success
- Biofuels - Technical Design
- Biofuels - Product System Design
- Biofuels - Diagrams and Conceptual Drawings
- Biofuels - Technical Issues
- Biofuels - Deployment Strategy
- Biofuels - Performance specifications
- Biofuels - Calculations
- Biofuels - Design Calculations
- Biofuels - Yields
- Biofuels - Rates
- Biofuels - Structural Calculations
- Biofuels - Power Requirements
- Biofuels - Ergonomics of Production
- Biofuels -Time Requirements
- Biofuels - Economic Breakeven Analysis
- Biofuels - Scaleability Calculations
- Biofuels - Growth Calculations
- Biofuels - Technical Drawings and CAD
- Biofuels - CAM Files
- Biofuels - Component Design
- Biofuels - Subcomponents
- Biofuels - Product System Design
- Biofuels - Deployment and Results
- Biofuels - Documentation and Education
- Biofuels - Resource Development
- Biofuels - Identifying Stakeholders
- Biofuels - Grantwriting
- Biofuels - Collaborative Stakeholder Funding
- Biofuels - Tool and Material Donations
- Biofuels - Charitable Contributions