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Biofuels in Virginia - Dec. 9, 2006

Al Weed describes how Virginia can advance energy independence, create jobs, reinvigorate depressed rural economies, and address global climate change by replacing the dying tobacco industry with a biofuels industry based on switchgrass and ethanol.
Part 1 (Google Video)
Part 2 (Google Video)

Biofuels - Think Outside of the Barrel

Vinod Khosla, a Silicon Valley billionaire, wants to save the world from oil. A venture capitalist, considered one of the most successful and influential personalities in Silicon Valley, he was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986. In 2004 he formed Khosla Ventures.
On Wednesday, March 29th, he visited Google to deliver a tech talk about the emergence of ethanol as a viable, market ready, and competitive source of renewable energy.

DIY alcohol - some manuals and howtos...

I haven't read any of these yet but they are all from authoratitive sources (IMHO) and the contents look comprehensive.
The Manual for the Home and Farm Production of Alcohol Fuel
Mother Earth Alcohol Fuel
Sample chapters from David Blume's Alcohol Can Be A Gas
more later...

Ford, Maxol launch green fuel initiative

Irish motorists will be able to buy an environmentally friendly Ford Focus car from November. The car runs on bio-ethanol, a green fuel that will be available at Maxol stations.
See RTE News - Ford, Maxol launch green fuel initiative.

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