Date:         Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:16:18 -0700
Reply-To:     Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Alternative fuels
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I'm surprised the oil robber barons haven't bumped the guy off yet.
Think of this- the home of the future may very well have algae curtains.

A ebay buyer came by today driving a Rabbit Diesel on his own homeade Biodiesel. He built his own processor for $1,000, and his fuel costs him about 65 cents a gallon to produce.
Smelled good too.

Robert
1982 Westfalgaeia


--- On Fri, 7/18/08, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

> From: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
> Subject: Re: Alternative fuels
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 7:45 PM
> At 09:44 PM 7/18/2008, John Rodgers wrote:
>
> >http://www.valcent.net/i/misc/Vertigro/index.html
>
> Now *that* looks like something with serious possibilities.
>  I'm
> truly impressed with the device, and it should be pretty
> cheap to
> build, considering.  I believe they have some real
> engineers
> there.  And they have a one-acre pilot plant running, hope
> to get
> 180,000 gallons/year out of it.  And projecting a
> production cost of
> $25/bbl, too, for vegetable oil.  If they even come close
> to meeting
> it will be a very fine thing.
>
>
> --
> David Beierl - Providence RI USA --
> http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL
> "Poor Relation"