Archive for May, 2009

How much investment needed for setting up a Bio-diesel plant?

Can any one give me the details regarding the infrastructure and capital needed for setting up a bio diesel plant? I want to set up the plant in India.
Can you also please let me know the breakup of the investment amount, that goes into the infrastructure? I look forward to know the machines needed, the [...]

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Bio diesel?

How do you make bio diesel? what crops are used? and how much would you have to grow to be able to produce it commercially?

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What is bio-diesel fuel ? Where does it come from? Why is it considered cleaner than gasoline?

What exactly is bio diesel fuel and where does it come from? Is it any different from just diesel? Like the diesel pumps at most gas stations? Is it a fossil fuel? I know it is being touted as an alternative fuel but what makes is it so different and cleaner than gasoline ?

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How many people support bio diesel as a fossil fuel alternative?

To grow the crops neccessary to make bio diesel feasible, it would require a HUGE amount of land development, destroying wildlife habitat in the process.
Let’s not forget that with each crop rotation, the nutrients are being taken from the ground and have to be replaced, which would require fertilizer to be added EVERY year.
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What type of alternative fuels is the US military exploring/experimenting with?

With this whole push to use alternate fuels in cars, is the US military experiementing with any? As of now most ground vehicles, such as tanks and APC’s, use fuel to run. Is the military looking to use alternate sources also?

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Shouldn’t the EPA provide alternative fuels at service stations?

If the EPA does not want drilling off the coasts and in Alaska, then why don’t they investment in alternative fuel technologies or install hydrogen pumps in fueling stations? Stop preventing and start providing a solution to the problem!

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How long and under what conditions can waste vegetable oil be stored prior to converting into bio-diesel?

I plan to accumulate waste vegetable oil from restaurants now to convert to bio-diesel at some later time. I was wondering if the cooking oil was stored too long a time would it degrade or spoil resutling in bad fuel?

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Anyone intrested in writing a two page summary of this?

FIBER KEEPS ITS PROMISE
BY
GEORGE GILDER
“Today, I await the death of television, telephony, VCRs,
and analog cameras with utter confidence as Moore’s law
unfolds.” Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, John Malone, are
you listening?”
Get ready. Bandwidth will triple each year for
the next 25, creating trillions in new wealth.
Editor’s note: Four years ago, Forbes ASAP published its first issue [...]

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Why are Republicans against researching and then using alternative fuels

All I hear from Republicans on here lately is that we should drill everywhere. Why should we drill when the amount of oil in the world is finite and oil is less abundant in the US than in many other countries. Wouldn’t it be in the US best interests to come up with alternative fuels [...]

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