The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal: How To Revolutionize America's Transportation Energy Infrastructure

Friday, January 13, 2012

How To Revolutionize America's Transportation Energy Infrastructure - With OIL...

Dan Stafford
There's a reason why I'm bringing up hybrid cars, Stirling engines, and algal bio-fuels that mimic gasoline enough that we don't have to change existing fuel infrastructure. The Chevy Volt already uses an electric motor to cruise. It's gas motor just runs a generator to charge batteries. Now, all internal combustion engines dump EIGHTY PERCENT OF THE ENERGY THEY MAKE AS "EXCESS HEAT". Stirling engines eat heat from any source. Small gas engine running a generator, a couple of small Stirlings running generators, and now all of a sudden, you're using 50-70% of the energy in gasoline to run an electric motor and batteries...off algae-gas. Get on it, Ford & GM!!!
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Dan Stafford And quit dinking around in the desert!!!

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Dan Stafford Plus, if you charge the batteries at night, all the power plants are basically idling, and enough electricity goes to waste every night to run 75% of the cars on the road, if they ran on electricity!!!

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Dan Stafford So no more of that "bio-fuels could never produce enough energy to replace fossil fuels" BS.

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Dan Stafford They only need to get to about 30%...

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Dan Stafford You don't use gasoline engines or Stirling engines by themselves. You use them T.O.G.E.T.H.E.R.

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Dan Stafford
http://cleantechnica.com/2011/12/16/navy-pushes-algae-biofuel-keystone-tar-sands-oil-pipeline-sputters/

Navy Pushes Algae Biofuel as Tar Sands Oil Pipeline Sputters
cleantechnica.com

While the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline is temporarily stalled, the U.S. Navy is helping to push the market for algae biofuel. That's good news for the U.S. biofuel industry and it could also help influence the growth of the biofuel industry internationally as well, since the Navy is coordinati...
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Dan Stafford
http://cleantechnica.com/2011/08/05/operation-green-stick-propels-low-cost-algae-biofuel-to-the-big-time/

Operation “Green Stick” Propels Low-Cost Algae Biofuel to the Big Time
cleantechnica.com

The algae biofuel company OriginOil has been pulling out all the stops to bring low cost algae biofuel to the market, and Operation Green Stick looks like their biggest move yet. Operation Green Stick is the code name for OriginOil's network of sensors that automatically control for hundreds of vari...
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Dan Stafford
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/01/13/originoil-and-doe-to-develop-direct-conversion-of-algae-into-renewable-crude-oil/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
OriginOil and DOE to Develop Direct Conversion of Algae into Renewable Crude Oil
cleantechnica.com

Good news on the algae-to-oil front has been released by Los Angeles-based OriginOil, Inc. in conjunction with the US Department of Energy. The company will work in partnership with Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to help algae growers to enter the global crude oil market. Origin, a developer of ...
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Dan Stafford
http://www.stirlingengines.org.uk/manufact/manf/usa/new2.html

Stirling Thermal Motors Inc (STM Power Inc)
www.stirlingengines.org.uk
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Dan Stafford
http://jalopnik.com/5874136/2013-ford-fusion-energi-the-worlds-most-efficient-car

2013 Ford Fusion Energi: The World's Most Efficient Car*
jalopnik.com

Amongst Ford's numerous powertrain choices for the 2013 Ford Fusion is the the 2013 Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid, a vehicle that may actually be the world's most fuel efficient car.
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"One thing that many people do not realize is that states like Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
and Michigan are sitting on a gold mine of wind energy potential. Or, more properly, next to the mine.
The Great Lakes are probably the area in the USA with the third largest inland wind energy potential.
Think of just the nickname for Chicago. "The Windy City". Milwaukee is even windier, I can tell you.
Why? Because they sit on the edge of a great flat area where there is both a land-water temperature
differential, and a large flat expanse of water that is comparably shallow.
Oilrigs certainly operate in deeper waters. And you won't have to construct transmission lines all the
way from the plains of Montana to put it to use.

The Great Lakes area has an opportunity to get the jump on wind energy's future, if that fact is
recognized and exploited. Wind energy means jobs for construction and maintenance workers, thousands
of them. Wind energy means leasing rights and extra money for family farmers struggling to make it on
agriculture alone. In most cases farmers can grow crops right up to the base of a windmill. The land
footprint has a small impact on total farm acreage. Wind energy also means freedom from fluctuating
fuel prices. Wind is free. The cost of a barrel of polluting oil can be raised or lowered drastically
based on fears or political whims. The potential gains are enormous. We've all seen the flow of good
manufacturing jobs out of the area. Well, they can't tell the wind to blow in another country so it's
more "convenient" or cheaper to produce. The wind is perfectly happy to whip up opportunities for us
right around here. Most of all, because we here in the Great Lakes region have the potential to have
a huge positive impact on U.S. energy industry emissions' contribution to global warming."