RVing family crosses country promoting biodiesel
Here's a whole new spin on the age-old, "What did you do over your summer vacation?" routine. For the children of Taylor and Christina Jenkins of Nampa, Idaho, the story may be too much for some to swallow. It might go something like this, "We spent the summer crossing the country to talk about alternative energy." But it's all too true.
The Jenkins family of six have been crossing the US in their bio-diesel fueled Monaco Class A motorhome, promoting earth-friendly fuels and lifestyles. The family left their Idaho home on the 25th of June, and have already made it to the east coast. The problem, they've noted with the east is that many of the biodiesel sales outfits sell to "members," and often during limited daylight hours. Perhaps things will go better as they make the 'flip flop' heading for their final event in Shoreline, Washington slated for July 21, the Sustainable Living and Renewable Energy Fair.
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Labels: alternative fuel, biodiesel, family
posted by Russ and Tiña De Maris at
7/16/2007 04:46:00 PM
3 Comments:
I am sure BioBiesel is very fashionable for some, however here are some important very facts to think about: 1. The BioPower offers less "Heat" value, which means less power and less fuel mileage... thus more gals burned. 2.) If we; as a Nation, actually chose to drive willy-nilly down the more PC BioDiesel Highway, even if we plowed under your front lawn there is not enough land in the US to grow all the needed crops to fill our transport needs. OH ~ AND lets not forget that we are currently seeing higher food prices today too because our nations farmers are NOT growing food crops in favor of instead more profitably of filling our vehicles up, plus BioDiesel has been recently found (BY THE US GOV. EPA Testing Labs) to be even worse for our lungs as it enters the air we breath.
So what could this cross country trip been better used for? How about showing off how they installed on-board Hydorgen Generation? For less than $1,000 they could have lowered their fuel (not increased it as BioDiesel does) cost by 15% to 30%, decreased their need for oil changes; ie... no carbon is present in the oil, dropped their pollution rate below 1% and increased their power too.
Now for those that will say that we have a limited oil reserve; Yes... they are right, so why not start with personal wind turbines; where useful, as one of the greater costs of employing electric power is its' cost and LOSS during "Delivery".
So when these nice people get home they might want to look into installing modern wind turbines too, as now they start making power 4 mph and will withstand winds up to 100 mph as well; and all very quietly too.
In closing, within the hi-tech engineering world vs. the backyard BioDiesel supporters, BioDiesel is not even worth thinking about on a seriuos national scale; in fact it is almost even frighting if it really did catch on as "again" it is already driving the price of beef, food and clothing prices up,...BUT... it is the popular feel good thing to do for the moment and it is actually something anyone without a job can handle on their own.
BTW - Once you spend a afternoon installing a professional grade on-board hydrogen generator you will only need to add water to it (it is everywhere I hear these days) and -NO- you are not trying to totally replace diesel, but instead you are enhancing it's total burning within each power stroke.
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TheBigBuck, at 1:02 PM, July 28, 2007
Do you have any links about Hydrogen generators. What you state sounds interesting.
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Anonymous, at 8:07 PM, July 29, 2007
big buck
would you list web sites for hydorgen grnerators?
i would be very interested in this information & am sure others would also.
Steve
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steve, at 12:09 PM, July 30, 2007
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