Reading the messages it appears that most of the members are thinking only about their personal problems. Making biogas on a home basis is impractical for the great majority of people and there is no large commercial industry in the business. With methane the situation is different, there is a huge business involved in methane production. In fact Tucson, which may be the most backward city in the US, runs buses on methane. It will run automobiles with just minor modifications.
Another thing about methane, you can make it anaerobically by digestion of garbage, sewage and farm waste. The CO2 that comes off is used for softening hard water, the CH4 (methane) is used for fuel. Just think you get rid of sewage and garbage quickly and produce useful fuel. There are 500 plants in Europe and about 60 in the US. I can provide more information. The thing that is really going to be short in the Western part of the USA and many undeveloped countries is fresh water. The Colorado and it's dams are down about 50% or more. One simple solution would be the desalting of sea water. Work was done on this in Japan some years ago, it was shown that a simpler electrical system could increase the rate of evaporation by 500% and the evaporated water is fresh. This water can be condensed by another simple electrical system and you have unlimited fresh water. These are things the world needs NOW, I would hope that the members will give them some consideration. Prof. Stuart A. Hoenig Dept. of Electrical Engin. Univ. of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 Fax 520-887-9727 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
