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[Home] [ Index ] [ Permalinks ] [ RSS ] [ Blogs of note ] A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. ( Goethe ) September 2006 Saturday 06-09-30 We can no longer afford a system that values profits over prosperity. Matt Harris Strange The Finnish government has decided to replace 5.75% of gasoline with ethanol in ten years or so. If the goal is to decrease dependency from imported energy, to cut down CO2-emissions, or something like that, it would be simple just to cut down our gasoline consumption by the said 5.75%. Not to speak of the fact that distilling ethanol from potatoes, as the government plans to do, is losing energy: it takes more energy than it gives. In fact, it may even take more oil than it replaces. In Sweden, on the contrary, they plan to distill methanol from wood, which is cheaper and produced heat and electricity as side products. I should calculate, how large a ...