David Blume talks to his readers

David Blume, Author of "Alcohol Can Be A Gas" talks with his students.

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Howto & Style

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• ethanol
• david
• blume
• alcohol
• can
• be
• gas
• book

[GreenMindMarketing]

How to make Alcohol at home... woo hoo!

[kdegru]

From first discovering Blume on Coast To Coast AM and the concept of Alcohol as a fuel I was very excited. I felt as an electronics engineer I am well suited to process control and I can do this and I cannot see any downside to this fuel for the ICE. I was completely blown away by the almost perfect ecological balance of the Cat Tails filtering effluent for a sewage treatment plant and having those Cat Tails yield incredible abounts of Alcohol.

[lightsabre6]

buy this book and watch the free David Blume videos - now!

THIS IS THE ANSWER WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! :-)

get involved, build a small still and be individually energy independent, then from a position of knowledge and strength DEMAND your economy switch from oil to alcohol - seriously

[Weaseldog2001]

No I didn't miss that. They were not specific about how much gas they capture. Perhaps you can site how many BTUs they get from captured gas and how many BTUs they get from natural gas.

That's cool about the solar panels. I'm hoping that one day, those will actually produce significantly more power than is required to make them.

[wtrclrst]

By June 34% of their power will be from solar.They just completed phase 1 last December. They also use methane gas from recycled brewery waste for (bio gas on their site...you must have missed that)

If you google Sierra nevada Brewery, there are several sites that report on their solar project.

[Weaseldog2001]

I just checked the site on the Sierra Nevada Brewery. They don't use solar. They use natural gas and fuel cells for on-site electrical generation.

[Weaseldog2001]

How many millions of tons of this stuff is going unsold andwasted?

From what I understand, all of it that is produced is sold. How do you expect supply to replace the nitrogen provided by synthetic fertilizers?

The corn ethanol is made using natural gas based fertilizers. The DDS produced is in lower quantities. We are farming more corn, by farming less wheat and other crops.

Corn is not being grown sustainably. We're using the old box to create an illusion that ethanol is sustainable.

[wtrclrst]

You need to get out of the old box. We're talking permaculture here. The more ethanol made the DDS available. Some farmer coops are using it now to feed their cattle and fertilize their crops. They also use the methane from cattle to fire their stills.

The ale I drink is from Sierra Nevada Brewery. They power their plant with solar .

[Weaseldog2001]

1. This stuff isn't made in sufficient quantities to replace conventional fertilizers. This is like using sofa pickings to pay the mortgage.

2. A lot of natural gas is burned to ferment and distill grain products.

When natural gas prices start going through the roof, your favorite distilled spirits will rise in price. Beer an liquor will increase in price and availability will go down. Breweries will go bankrupt.

I expect we'll start burning down our forests at some point. England came close.

[wtrclrst]

Dried distillers Grain makes excellent fertilizer, also repels most pests...no need for chemicals

[Weaseldog2001]

Worldwide, demand for natural gas has exceeded supply.

North America is on the verge of having natural gas supplies run down.

Why is this important? Natural Gas is used to make a wide array of chemicals including fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides.

To grow corn for profit, farmers are abandoning food crops. This is why wheat prices are rising. Corn needs good land and high fertilizer inputs. It is a lousy permaculture crop.