Comments on: Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction for Dummies: Or, Laziness Will Kill Us All

By: San Diego Loves Green – The World: Biofuels

San Diego Loves Green – The World: Biofuels — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:12:40 +0000

[…] on 1,000 domestic flights between Hamburg and Frankfurt. This is believed to have resulted in 1,471 tons of CO2 not being pumped into the atmosphere. Unfortunately Biofuels are both costly and difficult to […]

By: Emissions Trading Scheme for the Shipping Industry? | CleanTechnica

Emissions Trading Scheme for the Shipping Industry? | CleanTechnica — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:27:08 +0000

[…] On January 27, 2012 — Leave a Comment // The European Union keeps looking for ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. One place to cut emissions is the shipping industry—it’s just that the EU doesn’t quite […]

By: Bike the Nation: Miami-Dade County Part 2

Bike the Nation: Miami-Dade County Part 2 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:33:03 +0000

[…] (or more!) than cars. Biking builds community and supports local businesses, in addition to reducing greenhouse gases and making people healthier. There has been some progress towards more government-funding. Since […]

By: Lufthansa Declares Biofuel Trials Successful, Ceases Using Biofuel

Lufthansa Declares Biofuel Trials Successful, Ceases Using Biofuel — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:53:24 +0000

[…] has ceased its domestic trials of biofuel – but not because the trial failed. On the contrary, 1,471 tons of CO2 have been saved on over a thousand domestic flights between Frankfurt and Hamburg. Lufthansa is capping off its […]

By: It's a Motorcycle! It's a Car! No, It's the C-1!

It's a Motorcycle! It's a Car! No, It's the C-1! — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:17:19 +0000

[…] Most drivers who wouldn’t touch a two-wheeled vehicle with a ten-foot pole (motorcycle, scooter, you name it) will tell you that they’re dangerous and uncomfortable; what’s to stop them from tipping over […]

By: Swesley

Swesley — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:05:00 +0000

I believe we can help! Bicycles are nice, but we all can’t travel to work or visit friends and families by bike. Especially in the winter time. We represent a bio source system, developed overseas, that has a world wide patent, and can eliminate fly ash / coal ash, even garbage, animal waste, sludge, and petroleum waste, while capturing Co2 and producing 3 renewable energy sources. Our technology can thermal chemically process, the fly ash, (or waste) and convert it to electricity, oxygen, and methanol and we have proven this since 2003. All this with ZERO CARBON EMISSIONS! Plus we can create jobs and prevent elimination of some, create revenue streams for municipalities, or government, and rid pollutant waste!

Our first plant was erected in Serbia in 2003 to help the government there recover from the ravishes of war and NATO bombing. There, it was able to produce the three sources mentioned above, with the electricity funneled back into the grid, and the methanol used to fuel their stoves, heat their homes, and utilize for their automobiles and trucks.

Recently, we have sold a system to Saudi Arabia for the use of petroleum waste and they have plans to build a 2 GW plant to produce millions and millions of gallons of methanol from the waste. A 20 MW system produces 24 million gallons of methanol on an 8 hour – 5 day work week. Price of methanol currently is about $1.36 per gallon. Our thoughts are to have the methanol integrated with gasoline and chemically restructured to meet the oil demands of the future. Yet, our system also produces quite a bit of ELECTRICITY WHICH CAN BE FUNNELED INTO YOUR GRID, oxygen too.

FYI ~ Our system is a prefab system that can be transported by train, or flat bed truck and it consists of 4 cells. These cells filter PMs, NOx, SOx, and Co2 and convert to methanol by filtering in steam to take the syngas and reform it to produce methanol. All in all, we can create jobs, eliminate fly ash ~ coal ash or waste, lower or eliminate Co2 emissions, capture without burying in the ground the Co2 from your stacks and convert to three renewable energy sources. We will also provide scientific and engineering backup to our system and can demonstrate models in Europe or visit a proposed site in the USA, if your organization is interested in this wonderful concept. Also, visit us on Facebook at : http://www.facebook.com/mpbiomass

Scott Wesley
Principle /MP BioMass
swesley@mpbiomass.com
http://www.mpbiomass.com

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:26:00 +0000

Agreed. Not just the bike itself, but also the infrastructure (a LOT of concrete for roads and parking lots).

Granted, some people will always drive, but there is HUGE potential for driving less. The nicest places I ever lived and visited focused on bikes as transportation — quality of life was on another level.

By: Giles Gonnsen

Giles Gonnsen — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:36:00 +0000

Yes, but the environmental impact of manufacturing a bike and shipping to a store, vs the cost of manufacturing that electric car and shipping it to a store … bikes come in much lower.

Don’t get me wrong, I love electric cars, but the article is correct in suggesting that we all have to change our lifestyles as well.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:08:00 +0000

Electric cars do have zero emissions. There’s no tailpipe, no exhaust.

The grid we use to charge them is not yet clean. It’s getting cleaner and will continue to do so as we move from fossil fuels to renewable fuels.

Bikes are great for a portion of our travel. As are feet and trains. But not one size fits all at all times. We need a wide selection of clean options.

By: Cellomom on Cars

Cellomom on Cars — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:54:00 +0000

The Danes (and the Dutch also) live in a climate most conducive to biking: very temperate, with the biggest foes to biking being wind and rain. Their geography is also bike-friendly: those countries are FLAT – so flat, that even the elderly can keep biking as long as their balance is good. Biking where it is not flat on that kind of scale is just plain hard. Those streets that you thought were perfectly flat while you were driving in your car turn out to have a slope enough to make you pant and sweat, so you’re much much less willing to bike those with a pannier full of groceries.
Also, the Dutch had to lobby very hard to get their nice safe bike paths; before that there were a horrific number of accidents lethal to the biker. Since a few years the laws were skewed to the advantage of the biker (in case of an accident involving a bike and a car), and that has made another huge difference.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my bike and use it whenever I can (even when hauling groceries – but not too many), but without the right infrastructure I just don’t feel safe. Even with the right infrastructure, in the face of steep enough hills (think Boulder, CO) I’d quake. At my age, if I lived there I would get a bike with an auxiliary electric motor.
But yes, that’s as close as you can get to true zero emissions, unlike those electric cars that claim clamorously to have zero emissions.