Environmentally Sound Energy Alternatives

Our energy alternatives include renewable fuels that are economical and can be produced using existing technologies. They don’t require large amounts of water, won’t pollute water supplies and will quickly bio degrade in case of an accident or spill. In addition, they can easily be adapted to existing engines for transportation and gas turbines for generating electricity.

Fuels derived from biomass are the most economical and environmentally acceptable option available for solving current and future energy needs with the least impact on existing infrastructures. And by using the right mix of biomass plants, we can actually increase food supplies and make farming safer for local farmers.

This solution will also bring prosperity to rural economies within the US and around the world and will eliminate the incentive to spoil indigenous land and cultures in order to extract energy resources. It will provide long term skilled and semi-skilled employment.

If you are looking to upgrade your fleet or to expedite compliance with a Renewable Portfolio Standard,? we can provide support and consulting for the full life-cycle including investment financing and ROI analysis, energy crop farming and harvesting, fuel conversion and distribution logistics, and vehicle and engine/turbine conversions.

Contact Us today if you would like more information on how we can help solve your energy and fuel needs and bring prosperity without pollution to your area.

It is possible to have energy that is affordable and does not degrade our environment, risk the health of our children or threaten future generations.

We do not need to pollute our air, water, soil and fertile fishing grounds to have affordable and abundant energy. People do not need to risk their lives underground or on oil platforms in cold and stormy seas.

Fossil fuel energy companies tell us that all forms of energy entail some risks and that they are working to minimize these. But in fact, different forms of energy have HUGE differences in their risk factors especially when looking at the full “well to wheel” cycle. Fossil fuel extraction involves significantly more risk when using extreme oil extraction techniques like fracking, ocean and arctic deep sea drilling and open pit tar sand extraction.

Not only is the extraction risky, but the refining and burning of these fuels is also highly polluting.  Look at the  10 Most Toxic Ingredients Used In Coal, Oil and Gas Production.

These include, among others:

 

 

 

 

• Benzine – which is linked to leukemia and breast cancer
• Sulfer Dioxide (SO2) and Nitrogen Oxide (NO2) – are particle-forming air pollutants that are both highly toxic to human health
• Petroleum coke – being exported to China which when burned emit more CO₂ than coal
• Formaldehyde – is a carcinogen with known links to leukemia and rare nasopharyngeall cancers
• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) – which are known human carcinogens and genetic mutagens
• Mercury – a dangerous neurotoxin
• Silicon Dust/Fracking Sand – a known carcinogen and cause of silicosis
• Radon – radioactive gas which is the second largest cause of lung cancer in the US. Fracking is a new source, releasing it into the air and groundwater and as an additional pollutant in the extracted natural gas.
• Hydoflouric Acid / Hydrogen Flouride (HF) – one of the most dangerous acids known. Contact with it may not even be noticed until long after serious damage has been done. And yet it is a common ingredient used in oil and gas extraction.
• …

In addition, you have the problem of green house gases. And all the new fossil fuel based alternatives are worse than conventional oil extraction!

Here’s a comparison of the current fossil fuel alternatives

None of these address the problem of greenhouse gas emissions, and in fact some aggravate the impact because of additional methane escaping as part of the extraction process. Even without the problem of greenhouse gas emissions, none of these fossil fuel alternatives address the major problem of the other toxic pollutants and clean up issues.

Witness the Exxon Valdez in Prince Williams Sound Alaska, Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Mayflower Arkansas oil spill, Talmadge Creek / Kalamzoo River oil spill in Michigan – Still impacted 5 years later!

But switching from fossil fuels can be economical, and will indeed enable prosperity without pollution. Compared to fossil fuels, renewable energy and fuels are 90 to 100% less polluting to extract, produce and use.  And in the case of a major spill or accident, our recommended bio-fuels will bio-degrade in a few short weeks.

Here’s a comparison of fossil fuels and our recommended bio-methanol and bio-DME

As you can see, the difference in “well to wheel” pollution between fossil and renewable fuels is indeed HUGE.  And other countries and companies around the world are beginning to enjoy the resulting economic and environmental benefits of converting to cost effective renewable fuels. This includes Brazil, Sweden, Netherlands, China, Iceland, Germany and others.

Germany’s progress is particularly impressive under their Energiewende “Energy Change” initiative that has already resulted in up to 60% of their electric power being supplied from renewable sources (Check out Clean Break “The Story of Germany’s Energy Transformation). And in China, taxi fleets are running on methanol that is costing them 1/2 as much as gasoline.

Contact us to make an appointment to review what steps you can take today to begin enjoying Prosperity Without Pollution!

 

Pipeline Spills Put Safeguards Under Scrutiny  NY Times 09/10/2011

Since 1990, more than 110 million gallons of mostly crude and petroleum products have spilled from the nation’s mainland pipeline network.

Impact of Oil Spills

Oil spills are truly horrible yet unnecessary tragedies.
A spill of bio fuels would degrade in less than 2 weeks!

  Before the Valdez oil spill.

Prince William Sound, Alaska

guitarompe

The Price of Oil – Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Once spilled, oil can never be cleaned up. Your choice of fuel matters!

Fracking Consequences

 

Major Scientific Document Shows Why NY Fracking Moratorium is Imperative (Eco Watch)

Flammable Methane in Drinking Water Near Fracking Wells, Study Finds (Climate Progress)

Study links fracking to drinking water pollution (Grist)

 

 

Fracked Gas Isn’t a Bridge Fuel it’s a Gangplank (Common Dreams) Josh Fox

Fracking: Good for Fossil Fuel Companies, Bad for Public Health (Sierraclub.org)

Fracking Ourselves to Death in Pennsylvania (The Nation)

Fracking for oil and gas is devouring American groundwater (Environmental Health News)

The Most Important Issue Congress Must Consider in 2014-Assess impact of water pollution from fracking and close the Halliburton Loophole) (Environmental Integrity)

The Halliburton Loophole and It’s Impact on Safe Drinking Water Supplies (Earthworks)

Our Drinking Water at Risk – What the Gas Industry Doesn’t Want Us to Know (Earthworks)

The Growing Evidence of the Threat of Fracking to the Nation’s Groundwater (Peter Gleick, National Geographic)

Texas went big on oil. Earthquakes followed. (Clean Technica)

EPA abandons study that linked fracking, Wyoming water pollution (The Hill’s e2 Wire)

New Duke study bolsters finding of water contamination from drilling (E & E News)

A Texan tragedy: Ample oil, no water (Grist.org)

Fracking payouts ‘no compensation’ (BBC)

Sand From Fracking Could Pose Lung Disease Risk To Workers …  (NPR)

Gas Fracking and Health Problems (American Scientist)

Natural Gas Drilling: Impacts of Fracking on Health, Water  (NRDC)

Censored EPA PA Fracking Water Contamination Presentation Published for First Time (DESMOGBLOG.COM)

New Study Finds High Levels of Arsenic in Groundwater Near Fracking Sites  (The Daily Banter)

Dangerous levels of radiation from fracking found in PA water  (Salon)

Just a fracking well exploding into flames  (Grist)

Gas and oil companies typically outsource the disposal of the waste they generate. Many times the toxic waste is not disposed of properly. Tainted water has been dumped on roads or into caves that find their way back into water supplies. Radioactive filters have been dumped and left for others to deal with. And at some point, all of this will need to be dealt with.  The gas and oil companies were relieved of this responsibility because of the Halliburton loop hole that allows them to violate clean air and water laws. If they had to clean up these wastes, or pay for the care and medical attention needed by people and children affected by their pollution, they could not be profitable. So in the long run, it will be tax payers and people who live near fracking sites that will have to pay.

“Think About It”

 

A good energy policy results in affordable energy, clean water and clean air throughout the world

Why Bio-Methanol?

1. Economical to Produce Using Existing Technologies
2. Many Feedstock Options
3. Renewable
4. Clean and Bio-Degrades Quickly
5. Least Impact on Existing Infrastructure
6. Very Low Greenhouse Gas (GHG)

 

Why Bio-Dimethyl Ether (DME)

1. Economical to Produce Using Existing Technologies
2. Many Feedstock Options
3. Renewable
4. Clean and Bio-Degrades Quickly
5. Minimal Conversion / Infrastructure Issues
6. Highest well to wheel energy efficiency and the lowest greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of any biomass based fuel

 

 

 

 

1. If this is the best solution, why isn’t it being used?

In fact, portions of it have been implemented.

• Brazil for example has been using ethanol as a renewable fuel for over 30 years.
• Volvo has a fleet of trucks running bio-DME and Sweden is building a large production facility for bio-methanol and bio-DME.
• China has a fleet of methanol taxis where the fuel is half the cost of gasoline.
• The Dutch are making bio-methanol from glycerin, which is a by-product from bio-diesel production
• Iceland is producing methanol from excess CO₂ which is being used to supplement gasoline.
• In the mid 60’s methanol was the fuel of choice for the Indianapolis 500 race cars for safety and performance reasons
• California had a fleet of methanol cars in the 80’s which included 14,000 passenger cars and 400 buses in daily operation.

During the gas crisis in the 70’s, the US Synthetic Fuel Program concluded that methanol was the best alternative due to the flexibility of many feedstocks, cost of production, and impact on the existing infrastructure. Several authors have made similar conclusions including Drs George Olah, Alain Goeppert and G.K. Prakash who authored “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy” and Dr Robert Zubrin who wrote “Energy Victory”.

These studies, however, considered fossil based feedstocks. We are proposing purely biomass feedstocks. And this approach is supported by several studies including a 2010 MIT study¹ which concluded:

“Produced from renewable biomass, methanol is an attractive green house gas reduction transportation fuel option there are no technical hurdles either in terms of vehicle application or of distribution infrastructure!”

¹ “Methanol as an alternative transportation fuel in the US” by L Bromberg and W.K. Cheng

 

2. Won’t Electric Vehicles (EVs) remove the need for vehicle fuels?

No.

There are over 250 million vehicles in the US and about another 750 million throughout the rest of the world. EV’s account for a very small portion of cars today, so it will be awhile before the world is converted over to electric engines. And heavy duty trucks and railroad engines will continue to be powered using liquid fuel.

In addition, bio-methanol and bio-DME can be used in gas turbines to generate supplemental electricity when solar, wind and hydro generation is not sufficient.

Batteries based on lithium may not continue to be the preferred energy source for automobiles since lithium is somewhat unstable and 88% of the supplies are outside the US. Therefore, in the future electric power sources using Reformed Methanol Fuel Cells (RMFC) are likely to be used in vehicles and these can be fueled with bio-methanol.

3. Won’t fuels based on bio mass plants compete with the food supply?

Using bio-mass as an energy crop can actually increase the food supply!

This is based on where the crops are planted and the types of high cellulose plants used.

For more information on how we can increase the food supply with energy crops please contact us.

A Clean and Green Alternative Choice

Join the Revolution for Prosperity Without Pollution by converting your town, your state, your company or your country to use economically and environmentally sound fuel energy alternatives.

In the colonial days we fought the tyranny of a far away monarch. Today, we are facing the tyranny of limited competition for transportation fuels. This results in high prices, unstable supplies and environmental compromises. We can fight this by using alternatives that effectively compete.

 

 

In the early days, centuries ago, salt was a very precious and expensive commodity because it was the only way to preserve food for long journeys. Once refrigeration and other means of preserving came along, salt lost it’s high value.

You can do the same thing with oil by choosing to use alternatives to gasoline, oil, natural gas and other fossil fuels.

 

 

 

“Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil”

Dr. Zubrin converted his own auto to methanol and tested the results using it versus gasoline. Methanol won. Every dollar of methanol carried him 18.5 miles compared to just 13.25 for gasoline.

You can convert your car, or convert your fleet and lead the way to break free from oil!

 

 

“How Fuel Competition … Could Change the World and How You Can Help Make it Happen”

Every time you fill up your tank, you are contributing to the $51,369,863 ?we’re sending overseas EVERY HOUR! ?This could be going into your communities!

Join the Revolution and make it happen!

  

School Bus or Humvee, you can make them all

Fossil Free!

 

 The revolution has already started! It is going ahead fast and furious. ?And other countries and companies are currently enjoying the resulting economic benefits and opportunities.

• Brazil converted to renewable fuels over 30 years ago and is now essentially oil independent
• Sweden has a fleet of Volvo trucks that run on bio-DME
• The Dutch are making bio-methanol from surplus glycerin from the manufacture of bio-diesel
• China has taxi fleets running on methanol that cost 1/2 as much as gasoline
• Iceland is making methanol out of it’s excess CO₂ !

 

 

 

 

And Germany is moving forward with their Energiewende “Energy Change” initiative with a goal of being 100% renewable. ? Right now as much as 60% of their electric power is generated from renewables and they have beaten every one of their renewable goals, and may in fact reach it before the end of the decade!

Contact us to find out how you or your company can join the revolution starting today!

For employment opportunities with CMSG check out the Join Our Team page.