Rufus says, "You got a problem with what I do in the privacy of my own dog house?" ;)
Posted on 02/12/2006 12:00:24 PM PST by BenLurkin
I'm waitin for something to come crawling out of a landfill that just loves the taste of polyester plastics.
The first indication that it got loose is when people are driving down the interstates and allofasudden their bumper just sorta falls off.
Rufus says, "You got a problem with what I do in the privacy of my own dog house?" ;)
All I know is that if they could find a way to harvest the power of those Japanese Beetles (the ones that look like Lady Bugs, but more orange-y) that they've unleashed upon us in the past few years, we would be in High Cotton, as far as our energy needs go. (Bad choice of words...I think they DID unleash them because they have something to do with cotton...)
It's February in Wisconsin, and I'm STILL flicking those little suckers off my countertops on a daily basis! I can't smash them because they stink to High Heaven when you do. Blech.
"Breaking cellulose into sugar to spin straw into ethanol has been studied for at least 50 years. But the technological hurdles and costs have been so daunting that most ethanol producers have relied on heavy government subsidies to squeeze fuel from corn."
Welcome to my world. Many layers of Wisconsin Buracracy are involved in foisting Ethanol onto the consumers in Wisconsin. :(
I always wondered why God put these things on earth. Now I know. It just goes to show, God don't make no junk.
Please ping me.
That's the reproductive cycle of Congressmen and other assorted government types you're describing.
bump
ROFL! Is he a killer bee?
The Bug-Ping was a joke of sorts, but I will be sure to pig for all bug related articles!
And the air he emits??? How would we harness & proccess that???
How much profit did the oil companies make last year?
If there was any potential at all in this "technology" it would be here already without government handouts.
A reciprocating valve placed in the posterior
Funny and very clever on your part. :-)
Any port in a storm bump...
PINGing Bill Gates and his official representatives here at FR Gore2000 and Rusty Turkey!
The reason Brazil is so successful with Ethanol is first the material used; sugar cane. Sugar cane obviously has more sugar pound for pound then corn and is much easier to refine into alcohol then corn. Secondly, Brazil's emmission requirements are much more lenient then our standards, making ethanol run engines much more economical.
Powering the Internet - by any means - is far easier and more effiecient than powering vehicles. So far, anyway.
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