Re: Are Biofuels the Answer?

Hi Athena,

You're my new best friend!

I don't know what we can do about the sewage issue except capture enough sunlight so that is can be completely processed & purified using inexpensive solar electricity... How's that?

What's truly interesting is that each day, I see more and more press releases and announcements proclaiming breakthroughs at lower & lower price points... Efficiency gains of 5x to 10x of previous technologies... and I've been seeing them for years.

Since you're talking about a community, I would imagine that the 'free area" we have to work with will be rooftops. I'd also imagine that the buildings will make use of the latest passive solar technologies for winter heat collection & summer heat rejection. Ecah structure will be large enough to provide the levels of comfort & sophistication that people have come to expect on 2008, but not be so large as to negate the environmental benefits.

Unless this is a purely residential community there are coing to be public buildings, and where those buildings do not make use of skylights there will again be solar collectors on the roof top in addition to the high SEER value HVAC equipment.

Parking facilities at retail locations are another location we can cover with solar collectors. This has the twofold benefit of being able to provide more electricity than the retailers use, and providing covered parking for the patrons. Cooler cars in summer, dry covered walkways in rain, snow control in winter.

Finally, a landfill gas fired CHP generation facility to provide nighttime power and prevent the CH4 (methane is a potent greenhouse gas) from being emitted into the atmosphere.

Where will it be located and when do we start?