Energy Efficiency

If ever there was a product that latched onto the Peak Oil crisis, none has been more efficient at sucking disproportinate government financial support than ethanol. In Australia, the master public purse parasite has been Manildra, even coughing money into independent (oxymoron in every sense?) Rob Katter’s election war-chest, but is the writing on the [...]

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One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars – not people, new figures show; new analysis of 2009 US Department of Agriculture figures suggests biofuel revolution is impacting on world food supplies. One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than [...]

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Elsewhere on this site you will find the proof that ethanol is a negative energy and that over 6% volume per litre of fuel will actually create more harmful greenhouse gas emissions than 100% unleaded petrol, yet you have corporate government mandating a 10% volume of ethanol in fuel other than premium unleaded. Like the [...]

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Years ago there was a game show on TV where people had to guess the price of several items and then these were added together and a ‘mountaineer and his dog’ took steps up a steep slope; not high enough and you didn’t win anything, just right and you won a prize or if you [...]

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When Kevin Rudd was approachable and desperate to run Australia (we had exchanged emails), he was sitting on the sidelines wanting to pull on the jersey and run the field to show how smart he – believed – he was; if he had been truly smart – and for that matter any politician – he [...]

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