Oct. 05 2007 world’s first jet flight powered solely by 100% biodiesel fuel. http://www.greenflightinternational.com/pr.htm .
The The B-52 bomber was cleared to fly on a synthetic fuel blend in summer 2007. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/21/us_airforce_boeing_synthetic_biofuel_testing/
Aviation Week, Sep 17, 2007 – Alternative Fuels for Jet Engines
Biodiesel can be made from algae oil by a chemical conversion process called transesterification. Algae yields around 100,000 gallons of algae oil per year. In contrast, one acre of soybeans only produces about 50 gallons of soybean oil a year, while one acre of corn yields about 29 gallons of oil per year. The largest benefit to date is that the Algae farms can be built virtually anywhere.
http://e85.whipnet.net/alt.fuel/algae.html
Valcent Products are currently producing 100,000 gallons of algae oil per year using the Vertigro system in one square acre in Texas.
Unlike cornfields that are harvested to produce ethanol, algae farms don’t require huge volumes of freshwater, nor do they tie up land that could be used for food crops. Algae flourish in saltwater or even wastewater and grow up to 40 times faster than other plants. Compared with current energy crops, algae have “the potential to deliver 10 or 100 times more energy per acre,” says Ron C. Pate, a technical expert at Sandia National Labs.
Research on algae as a potential energy source is nothing new. But it suffered a setback in 1996 when the U.S. Energy Department cut funding for an algae research program that had been in place since 1978.
http://www.valcent.net/i/pdf/HoustonChronicle100807.pdf
Algae are responsible for nearly 50 percent of the earth’s annual carbon-dioxide consumption and more than 45 percent of the oxygen production. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/07/040728085622.htm
Algae Bloom off Washington visible from Space
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16686
In late 2003, GM officially canceled the EV1 Electric/Hybrid car program. Despite unfulfilled waiting lists and positive feedback from the lessees, GM stated that it could not sell enough of the cars to make the EV1 profitable.
The end came when GM decided it was cheaper to sue the State of California to roll back clean vehicle regulations than it was to build electric vehicles. Such legislation would have vastly increased the market for the vehicle.
retr0fit said
Virgin Atlantic To Fly Biofuel-Powered 747 In February.
The London Heathrow to Amsterdam trip will come 10 months earlier than Virgin — or project partners Boeing and GE Aviation — had planned.
There’s some question over whether the Virgin flight will operate on a biofuel mix derived from soybeans, or from algae. Both have been studied extensively by Boeing; algae is reportedly over 150 percent more efficient than soybeans.
Should just about get airbourne before Europe Bans Imports of Some Biofuel Crops
notafreemason said
Massachusetts: Small-scale alternative energy projects gain momentum
retr0fit said
“GETTING A BIT TOO BIG FOR BOOTS” and other Oil related issues
An interesting co-incidence of timing occurred this morning. Last week I sent TWO emails. One was a letter to Paul Dacre , Editor of the Daily Mail and the other was a FOIA request to Special Branch. Then I get this phrase occurring to me on Saturday … ” He’s getting a bit too Big for his boots ”
This morning, at the Company where I work ….
- > Greenpeace orang-utans storm Unilever building
Complete coincidence, possibly, OR a timely reminder of psychotronics and the tools employed by the puppet masters > Fighting activism with activism.. How crafty ! <
http://www.notafreemason.com/content2-04.html
— Letter to Daily Mail —
Dear Mr Connolly,
Thank you for your response, of Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:32:54, to my email to Paul Dacre.
I note that the article , “FBI chief blames Britain’s laws for the ‘dark hole’in terror intelligence no longer appears to be available on your original website link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_arti
cle_id=559318&in_page_id=1770 Article:559318 Not Found
If it is still possible to publish my comments in Print media, I would like to update my comment as follows: -
kind regards
Simon Hayes
—– Start Comment —–
RE: Robert Mueller, FBI chief blames Britain’s laws for the ‘dark hole’ in terror intelligence …
Intelligence Dark Hole … that’s a bit like calling the Kettle Black
” Dark Hole in Intelligence ! ‘ -> ‘My Arse …’
I would like to raise the following issues in reference to Robert Mueller’s comments.
[1]The US Administration largely justified the war on terror with information on WMD from an informant known as Curveball. The US
authorities had NOT even interviewed this man themselves. The European Head of the CIA described Curveball as unreliable and a
’stinker’.
[ http://prairiepundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/germanys-curveball.html ]
[2]August 22, 2007. It is Declassified that 60 officers in the CIA had seen cables indicating two Al Qaeda operatives had entered the US.
[ http://www.notafreemason.com/popwin-CIA-Breakdown.html ]
[3]The White House had (at least ) 28 Advanced Intelligence Warnings Prior to 9/11 that Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network would attempt to hijack a U.S.-based airliner.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/SMI402A.html
[4]Robert Mueller’s agency also failed to act on the following warning from one of it’s own officer’s. The “Phoenix Memo”, an FBI agent in Phoenix sent to FBI headquarters on July 10, 2001, which advised of the possibility of a coordinated effort by Bin Laden to send students to the United States to attend civil aviation schools.
Memo from Special Agent Coleen M. Rowley to FBI Director Robert Mueller, alleges that the Minneapolis agents became so frustrated that they began to joke that FBI headquarters was becoming an “unwitting accomplice” to Osama bin Laden’s efforts to attack the United States.
[ http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/30/911-meeting/ ]
[5]The Project for the New American Century or PNAC, stated that the primary goal of US geopolitical and military supremacy is to come through pre-emptive wars like Iraq. Former members of this ‘think tank’ include Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Lewis “Scooter” Libby. In September 2000 a PNAC report references another “unfortunate” Pearl Harbor style event that would galvanize the support of the American people behind a new “War for the Ages.
There is precedence to this type of action. Operation Northwoods, a U.S false flag plan from 1962 documents an agenda of generating U.S. public support for military action against the Cuban government. The plan says, “The desired resultant from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere.”
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods ]
[6]The US Senate has had to issue the White House with NINE subpoenas demanding documents relating to its policy of spying on citizens without getting warrants or other legal clearance.
[ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/28/whitehouse_subpoenaed/ ]
[7] When army intelligence attempted to investigate information of an Al Qaeda security threat in the USA, the operation known as ABLE DANGER was shut down by Senior Military officers :-
March 2001 conversation between Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer (in charge of ABLE DANGER) and his then DIA commanding officer, Major General Rod Isler.
“I’m the two star (General) here , Shaffer; I’m telling you I don’t want you doing anything with Able Danger.”
“[with respect] Sir, if not us then who?”
“I don’t know, but it’s not your job.”
The only way that Robert Mueller can now enhance the war against terror is to tender his resignation.
Simon Hayes
http://www.simonhayes.net
—– End Comment ——
— FOIA request to SPECIAL BRANCH —
> From: PublicAccessOffice@met.police.uk
> Subject: MET form confirmation.
>
> Thank you for your submission.
I would like to inquire as to surveillance material that I believe Special Branch has obtained on me from various locations. In particular I am interested in the information gathered in early 2004, when I was resident in Cobham, Surrey, regarding a prediction of a Tsunami at Christmas time 2004. This prediction was subsequently both timely and accurate.
Another prediction of a similar event has been made for October 2009. It would be very helpful, if such surveillance material that has been gathered in the past is made available, in order to establish a track record of the accuracy of previous predictions.
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retr0fit said
Boeing Throws its Weight Behind Algae
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/06/aviation-gets-b.html
Algae-based fuel step closer to reality > Saskatoon’s POS Pilot Plant Corp –
In addition to microalgae’s other benefits, the plant yields 15,000 gallons of oil per acre per year.
An unmodified 2008 Ford F450 truck was recently powered on B100 – 100 per cent biodesel made from 100 per cent algae — in the United States
Biofuel Calendar:
World BIOFUELS Forum 2008 – Prague Castle (9-11 June 2008
http://www.wbfevent.com/
European Biofuels Expo – Nottingham (15/16 Oct 2008
http://www.biodiesel-expo.co.uk/