World Famous Comics: Publisher: International Institute for Ecological Agriculture Alcohol Can Be a Gas!: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century
Publisher: International Institute for Ecological Agriculture Alcohol Can Be a Gas!: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century
Product Description: Alcohol Can Be a Gas! is the only comprehensive book ever written on alcohol fuel production and use for home and farm. Until now, it has been very difficult for farmers, contractors, alternative energy aficionados, those concerned about Peak Oil, and small-scale entrepreneurs to obtain good, accurate information on producing alcohol, or on converting vehicles to run on alcohol fuel. And with all the conflicting news stories about ethanol, the public finds it difficult to sort fact from fiction. This text, which has been reviewed by scientists around the world, is the definitive reference work on alcohol fuel.
Alcohol Can Be A Gas! contains 640 8-1/2 by 11 pages, with 514 charts, photos, and illustrations to reinforce the information-dense text. The book is geared for the nonscientific reader, but its 473 endnotes provide the technical foundation behind the accessible prose. A 700-word glossary and a 6300-entry index extend the book's usefulness.
This book is the distilled essence of the most pertinent information ever assembled in one place on alcohol fuel, the technology that can help us finally become producers of almost limitless energy, instead of extractors of finite resources. How we produce our energy from here on out will determine how we govern ourselves and how we relate to nature and the environment; it will also create a sea change in where wealth concentrates. It will determine if the future is ruled by a small number of armed dictatorships backed by military and industrial interests (a cabal author David Blume likes to refer to as MegaOilron or the Oilygarchy), or if energy, and therefore power, is held by a diffusion of democratic entities, based on their ingenuity and ability to gather a portion of their daily solar income.
As Blume writes in the Introduction to Alcohol Can Be a Gas!: "Various prospective publishers argued that putting all of this material into one large volume might scare off readers who just want a recipe book of how to make alcohol. They said, 'All this history and politics is fascinating, but aren't you afraid that including it in your how-to book would scare away some buyers?' 'Put it in a separate publication,' their marketing experts said. But in the final analysis, I decided that this book should be a complete tool kit to revolutionize our transportation energy system, combining a broad, sweeping vision with intricate detail.
"I spent four years working on this book with a small team of researchers. I traveled all over the United States in search of the most up-to-date information. In frozen South Dakota, I talked to Orrie Swayze and his farmer and VFW buddies who are taking on the oil companies, and to alcohol combustion engineer and alcohol aviation expert, Jim Behnken. I went to Decatur, Illinois, to see the largest alcohol plant in the U.S., Archer Daniels Midland's 200-million-gallon-per-year plant. My travels also took me to Brazil to document the world's largest alcohol fuel program.
"It took over 25 years to finally get this book to you. It represents the confidence of almost 30 people who collectively loaned more than $250,000 to see this project through. It's the most comprehensive book ever written about alcohol fuel. Its production has been a massive effort that has depended on the cooperation of hundreds of people who contributed both their knowledge and, more importantly, their experiences."
Very few complaints Excellent book, and a great resource and compilation that "pulls it all together."
However, I decline to give Blume 5 stars, due to his propagation of the myth of "global warming," the silly farce built on junk science.
Still, the book is well worth it, and there are many other wonderful reasons to use clean-burning alcohol as fuel in your vehicle.
Wish it could really happen!! This book has a lot of food for thought(and gas). I truly wish it could happen because we could be free of foreign oil dependence, use our own and nature's waste for fuel! The logistics could be done but the entrenchment of oil companies would never allow it. Very thought provoking with facts or data I had never heard of before, but it makes sense. Wish Henry Ford were here to fight again for the better way!
The solution for our great country!! This book is the bible for using a resource that we have in endless supply to end our dependance on foreign oil, curb global warming and adapt to a new economy that will create jobs for our country. Big oil has made most people skeptics and this is not new technology or a new idea. It does work and would only be improved upon with support. Fuel would be half the present price, energy would be clean and renewable, and our agriculture system would be sustainable!
Most Informative I have read this book cover to cover and it inspired me to start my own alcohol distillery. It will tell you how to convert your vehicle to E-85 which is %85 alcohol and %15 gasoline, which puts out only %13 of the harmful greehouse gases that %100 gasoline does, and only takes $1 per gallon to make and sells for about $1.50 to $2.50 all over the US. It will give you the full history of alchohol in the USA since the turn of the century. I will explain how hydrogen, coal, nuclear, and all other alternative energy sources work and why they pale in comparison to switching to alcohol. If you hate filling up your car with overpriced and planet warming gasoline then buy this book!!! It will give you the knowledge to join the alcohol revolution that is growing everyday all around the world.
OPEN Your minds PEOPLE This a awesome book. If your not open to sources of enegry that our farmers can make so we can keep our money at home, then just write the check and send all you money over sea's. I have read the book. I also make some of my own fuel now. People the country is being strangled by high enegry prices. Who care if you agree with the authors politic's or view or history . You missing the whole point. We need to put our enegry future back into the hands of the american people . Your freinds and neighbors. Would you not like to buy fuel from your local farmer for $3.00 a gallon , then he finds out you lay bricks, fix computers, trim trees , pays you for your services . We need to support our local ecomony regardless of your political affiliation. On the other hand just keep fighting with each other and pay the mega faceless corportion .
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