Thanks Hakan for this very interesting view on biofuels! But may I give you some impression fo the german point of view? First of all you did not mention Methanol, Fischer-Tropsch-Fuels (FT-fuels) and Biogas. Ethanol is not discussed in Germany probably of the lack of agricultural aera. I will not talk about Methanol because I think it will not have any chance. So what about FT-fuels? This fuel is promoted in Germany by federal institutions and by the automobil industry - namely DC and VW. This medium-term opportunity needs no chances in the motors, it can be made from every organic material but it needs bigger productions sites. On the other hand it is very energy intensive in production and the technology is still in development. Here a big discussion is going on. Biogas also now is in the discussion: cleaned and enriched up to Natural Gas and bringing it to a filling station or feeding it into a gas pipeline may be an interesting thing. This is already done in Sweden and Switzerland. There are cars driving with NG, many new NG filling stations will be built in nearest future, the liberalisation of the EU Gas market is in progress and the technology is available. The fraction of NG cars will increase. Producing electricity from biogas in Germany is economically very interesting because of a refund assured by law. And biogas can be produced in very small units. Biodiesel does not have the best reputation cause of the problems of monocultures. But it takes 0,55 % of the fuel market in Germany. So these are some points what is in the discussion in Germany. But Germany is not the biggest country although it has the most people in the Europe. A unique solution can only be found within Europe, here Ethanol might be leading. Another thing is the opening of the EU towards the east, with it big aeras of land and cheap labor.
So, this is a little input - hastily written. Greetings Daniel Hakan Falk schrieb: > Hi Keith and others, > > I am now close to publish, > http://energy.saving.nu/biofuels/biofuelorg.shtml > I am still insecure about "Ethanol, big or small?" and will probably take > this as a separate issue all together. Politics and perceptions are very > important for a business, so I am not sure yet. Please look at it and give > me your comments, both good and bad. > > Hakan > > > > ********************************************** > If you want to take a look on a project > that is very close to my heart, go to: > http://energysavingnow.com/ > http://hakan.vitools.net/ My .Net Card > http://hakan.vitools.org/ About me > http://vitools.com/ My webmaster site > ********************************************** > "A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to > how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world > being round that agitated people, but that the world > wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has > been sold to the masses over generations, the truth > will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving > lunatic." -- Dresden James > > "No flag is large enough to cover the shame of > killing innocent people" -- Howard Zinn > > "Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. > We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may > wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm > wrinkles the soul." - Unknown > > > > > > 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/ > > > -- Mit freundlichen GrŸ§en Daniel West __________________________________________________________ Zentrum fŸr Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung (ZSW) Regenerative Kraftstoffe und Verfahren (REG) Center of Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Renewable Fuels and Processes Netzwerk "Regenerative Kraftstoffe" - ReFuelNet Dipl.-Ing. Daniel West Hessbruehlstra§e 21C, D-70565 Stuttgart Tel.: ++49-711-7870-249 / Fax: -200 eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zsw-bw.de http://www.refuelnet.de __________________________________________________________ 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/
