On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:51:12 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >check it out: >http://www.gristmagazine.com/daily/daily103102.asp#2?source=stealth
Thx. The article seemed about the same, but they also provided this link: http://www.cleanschoolbus.org/ At that site is: >Alternatives do exist. School buses powered by natural gas and other >alternative fuels emit significantly lower levels of soot and smog-forming >pollution. New low-emission diesel buses are also becoming available. To >ensure that children travel in these cleaner buses, school districts need >federal support. and: > > È Natural Gas - Smog: 215 lbs/yr/bus >Soot: 0.5 lbs/yr/bus > > >È New Diesel - Smog: 322 lbs/yr/bus >Soot: 5.6 lbs/yr/bus > > >È Average Diesel - Smog: 417 lbs/yr/bus >Soot: 13.7 lbs/yr/bus > > So, they do get into cleaner-diesel a bit, and aren't completely anti-diesel, but I don't see anything on the page with the word "biofuel". Since school busses are a focus of the concerns of many anti-diesel activists (kids and bad environment and so forth), and since at least some of the nascient diesel efforts focus on making biodiesel available to some school districts, I wonder why more clean-up-diesel activism efforts aren't specifically aware of biodiesel and its potential to clean up some exhaust, in the here and now, with little or no hardware modification? I think this is important: the potential of biodiesel or other fuels to help with little or no hardware modification is an important logistical advantage. I know Southern States has been claiming for awhile to do some biodiesel for a school district (though I don't trust them further than I can throw a pound of fuel). I'm sure the cleanschoolbus.org people must have been proseletyzed, by now, on the virtues of biodiesel. But in general, I think there is more potential for the diesel-debating open-minded folks who are looking for answers to have some discussion as to biofuels. I'm not sure how much of an answer biofuels can provide, if there are questions as to their plentitude, but I do think they could provide more than their critics would have us believe, at first glance. MM ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Plan to Sell a Home? http://us.click.yahoo.com/J2SnNA/y.lEAA/jd3IAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
