Oil Vs. Ethanol

With record high prices at the pump, more and more people are starting to look at alternate fuel sources. Ethanol, also known as ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol, it is a flammable, colorless chemical compound is being looked at as a realistic alternative. Ethanol is produced by fermenting and distilling starch crops that have been converted into simple sugars. Feedstocks for this fuel include corn, barley, and wheat. Can you imagine being able to grow your own fuel? This is what scares major oil companies into trying to pass legislature to slow down the process of making ethanol cars and fuel readily available. Some people say the Ethanol is a net loser and will make little profit thus making it pointless to produce, yet new technological breakthroughs have made the production of Cellulosic Ethanol (produced from a great diversity of biomass including waste from urban, agricultural, and forestry sources) easier, cheaper and profitable. Right now on the east coast of the U.S., gas stations are making E85 available at the pump. E85 is a fuel blend of 85 percent ethanol and just 15 percent gasoline. This is a small step forward yet still leaves us dependent on oil, which is a source of energy that you can't just grow more of when it runs out.

More Links:
http://www.ethanol.org : American Coalition for Ethanol. ACE is the grassroots voice of the ethanol industry
http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/ : The Alternative Fuels Data Center is a vast collection of information on alternative fuels and the vehicles that use them
http://www.e85fuel.com/index.php : National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition
http://www.gm.com/company/onlygm/ : GM's Trendy Ad campaign for E85, They like to call it "going yellow".

HiFi Five Website

After 3 weeks of waiting for a googlepages invite, I finally got one. Now the HiFi Five blog has a website that will run along side it, helping do things it cannot.

Here is a link to the main site:
http://hififive.googlepages.com/home
Here is a link to the H5 internet video award list (with now clickable links):
http://hififive.googlepages.com/videolist

Note: new sidebar on the blog that links you to main pages on the hififive site. --->

Apple - Boot Camp

Apple released today Boot Camp (beta) which allows users to boot mircosoft's windows xp or Mac's OS X on any intel based Mac computer. This is very cool allowing Mac computers to run any operating system. Apple again staying one step in front of microsoft.