Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 19:48:56 -0700
Reply-To: Kim Springer <kimspringer@RCN.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Kim Springer <kimspringer@RCN.COM>
Subject: Re: Synth Fuel
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Volks,
I know this will be unpopular, but there is no substitute for burning
carbon. It's all buring carbon, it all produces CO2 and it all is a
dependency. Go ahead, start making biofuel out of cats even, like a guy in
England ended up in the papers for doing. Then you will be dependent on
cats. Coal and biomass conversion, it's already being done.
The point is to kick the habit. We're adicts. Make a light weight electric
vehicle for most of your needs, be it a scooter or a BugE or even an
electric 914. Then install solar panels. I think it's OK to depend on the
sun for the next billion years.
You will be less dependent on something that's messy and creates tons of
GHGs. Also, I wouldn't worry about the supply of oil. I predict that it's
going to get shut off, almost completely in 20 years. At least that's what
I'm hearing: a supply cap plan. Make your own plan ahead.
Now that's Vanagon content, Audi content, Chevy content, etc.
Kim
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Rodgers" <inua@CHARTER.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: Synth Fuel
> Why is it to expensive to be practical? The Germans were fueling a war
> with it way back in the early 1940's. It couldn't have been that to
> expensive. They had to be making huge quantities to fuel the vast
> numbers of airplanes and tanks and other vehicles.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
> Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote:
> > It can be made from coal, even wood.
> > It's too expensive to produce, to be practical.
> > Search it at Wikipedia - bet you can read about there a lot.
> > Scott
> > www.turbovans.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of
> > John Rodgers
> > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 5:37 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Synth Fuel
> >
> > I was watching a show on the History Channel about the war with Germany,
> > and the narrator was telling about the maximized effort to blow up and
> > destroy the synthetic fuel plants in Germany.
> >
> > WHAT??????
> >
> > SYNTHETIC FUEL the man said.
> >
> > I sat bolt upright in my chair - SYNTHETIC FUEL ..... that really caught
> > my attention.
> >
> > But, ans luck would have it, manufacturing of synthetic fuel in Germany
> > was not mentioned again in the show.
> >
> > Now I ask you, if the Germans were making enough synthetic fuel to run
> > a war, why the sam heck are we not making synthetic fuel to run our
> > country.
> >
> > Something stinks about this.
> >
> > What say you all..
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > John Rodgers
> > 88 GL Driver
> >
> >
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> > 12:38 PM
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