Not too long ago a similar post was posted..however I am here to share abit more!
Sorry, guys..got to apologized to all. The title might have made you happy? Well, yes indeed I really saved $21.45 for a full tank of fuel. But is diesel not the common petrol.
Months ago a friend introduced me to Bio-diesel. Bio-diesel is a clean and green form of fuel, first of all it does not deplete any oil used for food processing. Oils are collected back from stalls or restaurant by Alpha Bio Diesel and processed as diesel.
The plus point is that bio diesel cleaned up your engine and precent black sooth from forming inside your exhaust and does prevent pollution to the environment and less maintance fees when you visit the workshop.
A petrol of diesel cost around $1.24 per liter and bio-diesel cost me around $0.85cents. Original price of bio diesel is $1.00 per liter and they are having a 15% discount.
Every liter of bio-diesel I pumped saved me $0.39cents. And very time I would need to pump 55 liters. Thus a saving of $21.45 per full tank. Imagine I my frequency is 4 times monthly. That will bring a saving of $1029.60
Sufficient for me to pay 2 months of vehical installment and some spare change for another 3 full tanks.
So, if you know of anyone using a diesel engine to spread the news to them and GREEN the environment together!
*No my worry is will government 'eye' this bio diesel and create a 'bio diesel tax'???
Floating wind farm
To be build @ Norway
While wind energy isn't necessarily wacky in and of itself, you've got to admit there's something a little out there about a giant wind farm floating in the middle of the ocean. If you plan on visiting Norway in the coming years, you may catch a glimpse of these towering turbines spinning off the country's southwest coast from your airplane window.Offshore wind farms can only be placed in water up to 131 feet (40 meters) deep, but floating wind turbines are a relatively new concept designed to take advantage of the high-speed winds located farther out at sea.
Since they don't have to be physically buried in the sea floor, floating turbines can be placed in water as deep as 2,297 feet (700 meters).
Even more appealing, perhaps, is the greater energy capacity of these floating turbines. While winds moving across land may only average speeds around 13 feet (4 meters) per second due to obstructions like hills and trees, winds blowing over the open ocean reach speeds at least twice as fast.
Some reports suggest that wind farms could provide up to 15 percent of the world's future energy needs
StatoilHydro, a Norwegian energy company, has plans to construct the world's first full-scale floating wind farm in 2009. According to the company's Web site, each turbine will weigh a total of 5,842 tons (5,300 metric tons). The turbine will stand 213 feet (65 meters) above sea level, while a 328-foot (100-meter).
Bad, improper and hastily construction was the main reason to has caused dams to collapsed just one to two years after being built. Another reason could be embezzlement of funds for the construction of dam.
Based on reports from China, a total of 59 dams nationwide in China were breached between 1999 and 2008, 20 caused by quality defects and the rest by torrential rains.
More than 40% or 37,000 - are in otential danger of overflowing. One worst dam accidents occured in Henan province in 1975, when a collapse at one dam triggered a domino effect, casing about 26,000 people to drown. Over 100,000 more may have died in the subsequent famine and disease outbreaks.
Well, afterall the safety and counstrction and many more things in China may not be up to standard.. remember the 'Sanlu' milk incident? Wonder when will China raised it's safety standard.
Building sub-standard dams definitely will caused more harm to the environment than good to it.
Oh Earth Hour is here in another 30mins.. thus I will be darkness and offline.. and NO Candles for me either!!!
Save the Earth, Save Earth Ma Ma!!
Imagine the city skyline in darknes?More than 300 organisations and 3,000 individuals here have pledge to switch off theirs lights for 1 hour next Saturday for 1 hour to mark Earth Hour, a global initiative by World Wide Fund for Nature(WWF).
Next Saturday at 8.30pm local time, people around the world will turn off the lights for an hour, that means our mother earth will take an hour 'rest' and during this hour, electricity consumption will take a dip.
Is really good to see more than 1,800 cities and 80 countries joining hands for a good cause.
As for me, will be 1 hour in darkness, no Television and computer! My bid for mother earth!
Jatropha, a plant that is native to Central America and grown in countries throughout Asia such as India, China, Indonesia and Myanmar. Could be the rising star as biofuel replacing the crude oil that we are using now.
Jatropha is a resilient plant. It is resistant to drought and pests attack. It produces seeds that can produce yield of up to 40% oil. When the seeds are crushed and processed, the resulting oil can be used in a standard diesel engine.
Myanmar can produce up to six million barrels of crude oil annually. At current stage it is not enough to meet domestic demand thus forcing them to spend more than US$200 million (S$302 million) a year on diesel and crude oil imports. But this could change when the production increases.
Comparing with other feedstocks, Jatropha when used in diesel engines will emits less carbon emissions thus making it a good alternative to diesel.
Jatropha's oil yield is said to be 2,000 litres per ha, against rapeseed's 1,200 litres and soybean's 600 litres.
Although, palm oil yields is higher, at 4,500 litres per ha but it is less sustainable and suitable cos it is a food crop and competes for arable land, at times leading to deforestation.
In terms of breakeven costs jatropha is by far the most efficient biofuel at US$50 per barrel. It trumps other traditional feedstocks such as palm oil (US$149) rapeseed (US$190) and soybean (US$144).
Let's see how jatropha will develop to become the champion of biofuels in the 21st century
Good news to many of us, the price of oil is going south. But fall in oil prices could somehow be limited by the news that President-elect Barack Obama plans to implement a major infrastructure program to help boost employment in the weakening US economy.
With all the stimulus packages and output cuts by Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), we may see the oil price stabilizing.
Opec, which controls about 40 percent of world crude supplies, announced a production cut of 1.5 million barrels a day in October and 500,000 barrels in September.
But let's keep our fingers crossed as Opec will meet again in Algeria on December 17th to discuss on further output reduction, this may cause the oil to go up again.
