The additive does not require any modifications to the engines which makes it even better.  The two hour test flight went off without a hitch.  There was no difference in how the engines ran and there was no distinguishable difference at any level to using kerosene, which is jet fuel.

Today’s test does not mean that we will instantly be using Jatropha world wide on every flight.  It does mean that an airline opened there minds to helping the planet and that if it goes well for them, other airlines will follow suit.  Jatropha still is not being grown in large enough quantities to facilitate the airline industry but through planning and growing demand to purchase this wondrous fuel, we are sure that farmers will also follow suit.

This video brings to light the advantages of a union between Jatropha and the airline industry.

Ben & Jerry’s

Greenpeace researchers in Germany first developed the precursor to the climate-friendly freezer in the early 1990s when it became clear that HFCs, which the chemical industry had marketed as a safe alternative to ozone depleting clouroflourocarbons (CFCs), were accelerating global warming.

“This climate-safe freezer will keep pints of Chunky Monkey and Cherry Garcia as cold as ever, but it’s also going to help cool our planet,” said John Passacantando, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA. “With hurricanes intensifying, tropical disease spreading, sea levels rising, and polar bears going extinct, we need to make sure that what cools our ice cream, drinks, and homes isn’t also melting the ice caps.”

Ben & Jerry’s cleaner, greener, freezer is eco-friendly and climate safe.  They are now a Green Earth Friend!

John Kanzius, a retired TV station owner and broadcast engineer, was looking for a cure for cancer. He got up in the middle of the night, with a revolutionary idea, to eliminate cancer cells from the human body. By injecting small amounts of metals into the body which are attracted to cancer affected cells and exposing them to radio waves. The radio waves superheat the metals and the surrounding cancer tissues thus killing the cancer. After much experimentation he found that his invention could also burn salt water. Conventional hydrogen generators require electrically charged metal plates submerged into salt water to release the hydrogen. What he had discovered is another way to extract the hydrogen from salt water.

Could a car running on radio waves and hydrogen be in our future? Only time will tell. Is building a piece of equipment that emits enough radio waves to be effective, going to be cheaper and more efficient than a battery and some electrodes. The problem with electrodes is that they corrode during the process of extracting hydrogen. So having a separate unit that has no contact with the salt water could be invaluable. Therefore, a car running on radio waves and hydrogen maybe the way to go.

About 4 years ago inventor Jim Sears from Colorado came up with the idea of extracting biofuels from algae. He knew, this being a new technology and a new industry, that he had a long way to go and a lot of people to convince. Algae, which can provide a 100 times more oil per acre than conventional crops, is very hard to grow in ponds due to the uncontrolled temperature that our environment supplies. Under controlled temperatures the algae doubles overnight, making it the fastest growing plant on the planet.

With half a million dollars from a friend of the Colorado State University, they started Solix Biofuels. Soon they had a patent pending on Photo Bioreactor Technology, the technology used in growing the algae under perfect growing conditions. Solix is in the process of building a 305 ft by 50 ft reactor which will be able to produce 10,000 gallons of oil per acre, per annum. Carbon dioxide is what algae needs as fuel to grow. In other words, carbon dioxide is its main diet. The plan is to have the bioreactors close enough to power plants and other carbon dioxide emitting processes to work symbiotically with them, thus creating a win-win solution for fuel generation. When and if this plan goes into effect, it will only use 1% of farm land being used to grow our crops in comparison to the massive amount of acreage that would be needed for ethanol produced from corn. Half of algae’s body weight is oil, whereas the oil palm tree, the largest oil producing plant, at present is at 20% body weight is oil. Soy produces 50 gallons of oil per annum, Canola 150 gallons, Palm 650 gallons, Algae 10,000 gallons. Anyone looking at these statistics can see that algae will be a big part of what we are going to be putting in our gas tanks in the foreseeable future.

Using water with electrically charged metal plates submerged into the water produces hydrogen gas, which if ran into your intake manifold, can save you some gas. The internet is flooded with this hydrogen generator and manuals on how to build it and install it. Why car manufacturers are choosing other avenues is a mystery. There are cars being made that are electric and run on hydrogen fuel, however, there are not many stations around that carry hydrogen, so where ever you go, may be a one way trip. Ethanol is produced with corn. It takes a lot of energy to produce. If you went a 100 miles with a gas vehicle, you would need one-third more ethanol to go the same hundred miles. Since it takes so much to produce Ethanol it will not be cheap and it will eat up food resources and since we will be growing for fuel, not food, corn and wheat prices will increase. There is research ongoing trying to extract ethanol from non food crops. You also need a bigger tank to store the Ethanol and one that is not prone to corrosion. That coupled with stronger hoses and equipment needed to run this fuel will increase the price of the vehicle.

BioGas is gas produced by anaerobic digestion. Essentially, gas produced by rotting garbage. Landfills are covered with plastic then buried with a pipe sticking out to release the pressurized gas. If it is not stored or burned these gasses are a potent form of greenhouse gas. This gas can be used in a couple of different ways, such as heating and the production of electricity.