Hello Keith, Pan and all, Apologies for my long silence and less than quick responses to some earlier posts, particularly on abiogenic petroleum, which need further research. I hope to soon make amends.
It has been pouring whole lakeful(l)s on Chennai this season and the past week has been one long stretch of continual pounding from the skies. Haven't had rains like this since the Eighties. The raingods seem to have quaffed too much local beer and are venting their overblown bladders on the hapless populace, which can't even run for cover as homes are already under several feet of water. All these years , the friendly neighbouring states of Karnataka & Tamilnadu were fighting over rights to the measly waters flowing down the Kaveri and are now equally active performing reverse somersaults on why dams should or should not be raised. Good news in the meanwhile on the renewables front. http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=40008 With 7000 MW of renewable energy grid power capacity currently installed in India -- representing 7 percent of the total installed grid power in the country -- and wind power alone contributing 4 percent with an installed capacity of 4225 MW, the country's Minister for Non-Conventional Energy Sources announced that India ranks fourth after Germany, the U.S. and Spain. A few days back some of the oil biggies in India issued tenders for B100 under the government mandate of 20% BD blending with High Speed Diesel. But going by the experience of sugar mills, which were offered below-cost prices by the same biggies for anhydrous ethanol for similarly mandated blending with gasoline (petrol), one is cautious in optimism. Regards balaji _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
