Fuel Alcohol

• HABITAT: CEB Press - Sawmill - Living Machines - Modular Housing Units
  
• AGROECOLOGY: LifeTrac Multi Purpose Tractor - MicroTrac - Power Cube - Agricultural Spader - Agricultural Microcombine - Hammer Mill - Well Drilling Rig - Organoponic Raised Bed Gardening - Orchard and Nursery - Modular Greenhouse Units - Bakery - Dairy - Energy Food Bars - Freeze Dried Fruit Powders
  
• ENERGY: Pyrolysis Oil - Babington Burner - Solar Combined Heat Power System - Steam Engine Construction Set - Solar Turbine - Electric Motors/Generators - Inverters & Grid Intertie - Batteries
  
• FLEXIBLE INDUSTRY: Lathe - Torch Table - Multimachine & Flex Fab - Plastic Extrusion & Molding - Metal Casting and Extrusion
  
• TRANSPORT: Open Source Car
  
• MATERIALS: Bioplastics

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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.

Development Work Template

1. Biofuels - Product Definition
   1. Biofuels - General
   2. Biofuels - General Scope
   3. Biofuels - Product Ecology
      1. Biofuels - Localization
      2. Biofuels - Scaleability
      3. Biofuels - Analysis of Scale
      4. Biofuels - Lifecycle Analysis
   4. Biofuels - Enterprise Options
   5. Biofuels - Development Approach
      1. Biofuels - Timeline
      2. Biofuels - Development Budget
         1. Biofuels - Value Spent
         2. Biofuels - Value available
         3. Biofuels - Value needed
   6. Biofuels - Deliverables and Product Specifications
   7. Biofuels - Industry Standards
   8. Biofuels - Market and Market Segmentation
   9. Biofuels - Salient Features and Keys to Success
2. Biofuels - Technical Design
   1. Biofuels - Product System Design
      1. Biofuels - Diagrams and Conceptual Drawings
         1. Biofuels - Pattern Language Icons
         2. Biofuels - Structural Diagram
         3. Biofuels - Funcional or Process Diagram
         4. Biofuels - Workflow
      2. Biofuels - Technical Issues
      3. Biofuels - Deployment Strategy
      4. Biofuels - Performance specifications
      5. Biofuels - Calculations
         1. Biofuels - Design Calculations
         2. Biofuels - Yields
         3. Biofuels - Rates
         4. Biofuels - Structural Calculations
         5. Biofuels - Power Requirements
         6. Biofuels - Ergonomics of Production
         7. Biofuels -Time Requirements
         8. Biofuels - Economic Breakeven Analysis
         9. Biofuels - Scaleability Calculations
         10. Biofuels - Growth Calculations
      6. Biofuels - Technical Drawings and CAD
      7. Biofuels - CAM Files
   2. Biofuels - Component Design
      1. Biofuels - Diagrams
      2. Biofuels - Conceptual drawings
      3. Biofuels - Performance specifications
      4. Biofuels - Performance calculations
      5. Biofuels - Technical drawings and CAD
      6. Biofuels - CAM files whenever available
   3. Biofuels - Subcomponents
3. Biofuels - Deployment and Results
   1. Biofuels - Production steps
   2. Biofuels - Flexible Fabrication or Production
   3. Biofuels - Bill of materials
   4. Biofuels - Pictures and Video
   5. Biofuels - Data
4. Biofuels - Documentation and Education
   1. Biofuels - Documentation
   2. Biofuels - Enterprise Plans
5. Biofuels - Resource Development
   1. Biofuels - Identifying Stakeholders
      1. Biofuels - Information Collaboration
         1. Biofuels - Wiki Markup
         2. Biofuels - Addition of Supporting References
         3. Biofuels - Production of diagrams, flowcharts, 3D computer models, and other qualitative information architecture
         4. Biofuels - Technical Calculations, Drawings, CAD, CAM, other
      2. Biofuels - Prototyping
      3. Biofuels - Funding
      4. Biofuels - Preordering working products
      5. Biofuels - Grantwriting
      6. Biofuels - Publicity
      7. Biofuels - User/Fabricator Training and Accreditation
      8. Biofuels - Standards and Certification Developmen
      9. Biofuels - Other
   2. Biofuels - Grantwriting
      1. Biofuels - Volunteer grantwriters
      2. Biofuels - Professional, Outcome-Based Grantwriters
   3. Biofuels - Collaborative Stakeholder Funding
   4. Biofuels - Tool and Material Donations
   5. Biofuels - Charitable Contributions