Here's some Vanaogn content, but very bad Vanagon content:

Everyone keeps thinking in terms of a carbon based (burnable) solution to
the cost of fuels. There are two challenges facing us, all of us! 1) gas
costs a lot and will only cost more. 2) we can't keep destroying our
environment.

This means we have to come up with a way to run our vehicles on sun or wind
or geothermal, or we need to abandon our vehicles all together.

It's gotten to the point, for me, that every time I buy another additional
part for my Tristar, I think, "why am I investing in this thing? Lately,
I've been telling myself that I can keep the truck and just use it on the
weekends for errands, hauling stuff, etc., but during the week, I need an
alternative that doesn't burn gas and cost a lot to run.

Anyone else out there starting to get this same nagging feeling?

Kim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Keezer" <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: Alternative fuels

> I'm surprised the oil robber barons haven't bumped the guy off yet.
> Think of this- the home of the future may very well have algae curtains.
>
> A ebay buyer came by today driving a Rabbit Diesel on his own homeade
Biodiesel. He built his own processor for $1,000, and his fuel costs him
about 65 cents a gallon to produce.
> Smelled good too.
>
> Robert
> 1982 Westfalgaeia
>
>
> --- On Fri, 7/18/08, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
>
> > From: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
> > Subject: Re: Alternative fuels
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 7:45 PM
> > At 09:44 PM 7/18/2008, John Rodgers wrote:
> >
> > >http://www.valcent.net/i/misc/Vertigro/index.html
> >
> > Now *that* looks like something with serious possibilities.
> >  I'm
> > truly impressed with the device, and it should be pretty
> > cheap to
> > build, considering.  I believe they have some real
> > engineers
> > there.  And they have a one-acre pilot plant running, hope
> > to get
> > 180,000 gallons/year out of it.  And projecting a
> > production cost of
> > $25/bbl, too, for vegetable oil.  If they even come close
> > to meeting
> > it will be a very fine thing.
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Beierl - Providence RI USA --
> > http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> > '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL
> > "Poor Relation"
>