| At my farm I pump water and generate electricity using diesel engines fueled with used vegetable oil. I get the oil from restaraunts, mix it with paint thinner and some other stuff and use it for fuel in Chinese or INdian one banger diesels.
Burning vegetable oil for fuel is carbon nuetral, the carbon released in the process was sequestered from the atmosphere in the plants as they were grown.
Today I visited a windmill farm (8 hours drive North of the koi farm) in Abilene where my brother in law works. I went up inside a 364 foot tall windmill that produces 3 megawatts, largest in North America. It was very impressive.
However, at a cost of over $3 million for each windmill, they are a bit out of my range. I could buy 5 fish farms for that much.
Still, the thing generates nearly 2500 horsepower at 17 rpm's and has zero emissions. There are thousands of them atround here, far as you can see in any direction. More windmill generating capacity than any state of nation.
Texas has planned over 30 new coal fired powerplants over the next 20 or so years. We build those and none of us will be able to breathe. My uncle, (50 years with the power company) says it would take a couple of dozen Chernobyl type disasters to poison as much land, wreak as much environemtnal havoic and kill as many people as mining coal and using coal fired generators has done. We need more nukes, and baddly. 30,000 coal miners die every year (mostly in Ghina), and we are oblivious.
I'm trying to do my little part by generating some of my power on site.
My plans are to do the same at my house.
Brett
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Brett
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