Most everyone is wary of petroleum prices and the populace of Belize is no exception. Unlike North America whose vehicles run on gasoline, the rest of the world’s vehicles (cars, tractors, trucks, maritime, locomotives, etc.) run on diesel fuel. Thirty years ago diesel was junk fuel and dirt cheap. No more. Whether OPEC or the refineries realized they had a “cash cow” and increased the price of diesel is up for grabs. The hard reality is that we all pay, one way or another. Nowadays fuel prices are volatile. In the north, prices are now increasing because of investor speculation and not because oil inventories are down. How does the farmer, in this instance, plan for next year’s crop and production costs? And if his projection is off and the costs are more, what happens? We all pay.
Taking organic trash like sugar cane waste and, for that matter, other organic waste like garbage seems like a logical and smart environmental alternative to a waste problem, an economic problem that the KDV technology can solve. Unlike other waste-to-fuel alternatives like pyrolysis and Fischer-Tropsch which use high temperatures to burn waste and create a synthetic gas; as stated, the KDV uses low pressure and low temperature converting that energy source (waste) into high grade and low sulfur diesel fuel. And unlike these two described gasification technologies, there are no emissions like dioxin and furan which are toxic.
The cost for this technology is relatively low and the return on investment is well under five years. Biodiesel plants, on the other hand, use food crops, create waste, pollute, and are expensive and inefficient to produce fuel. Some say that the KDV technology is too good to be true. Interestingly, with biodiesel, the manufacturers have to add potions to make it work correctly. With the KDV, the diesel fuel oil has increased lubricity and a hotter burn rate which allows the engine to have a longer life as well as more mileage per gallon. The choice seems obvious and our friend, Leonardo, agrees.
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Hello. Can you address the difference in fuel made from waste and that made from petroleum products. Reason I’m asking is that diesel fuel now running the trucks in America is absolutely known to cause cancer and I don’t think anyone is addressing that. It could be that the switch to organic trash for fuel not only reduces our reliance on petroleum (and the resulting volatile prices), it also could be a positive move in reducing harmful diesel fumes. Thank you.
This is not only diesel, but any fuel. So caution is required in any case, as follows:
REMEMBER ALL FUELS ARE HAZARDOUS AND CAN CAUSE SKIN CANCER.
Answer is here: http://www.healthhype.com/skin-cancer-causes-and-risk-factors.html
Gasoline, Petroleum and the plastics made from it are the single largest cause of cancer in the world. This is a known fact, verified by thousands of studies which the oil industry counters by paying pundits to say: “Well, we just are not sure yet”. Now we are sure. The TPH array in petroleum and petroleum products exists as microscopic particles which leach off of plastic materials, (ie: the plastic in water and baby bottles) and float in the air as vapor, (ie: the fumes around gas stations). These particles are absorbed into the body and broken down to a cellular level and then to a DNA level. As the DNA replicates, a constant process, these TPH materials cause the replication process to make mistakes and create genetic mutations. TPH is a very particular array of items so the “mistakes” that it causes occur as the same thing over and over. We call this repeating mistake: “cancer”. Other materials in our environment cause other kinds of genetic mutations that do not manifest as onerous, or extremely negative, or obvious things. TPH manifests cancer.
The TPH chemical array has killed more Americans than every terrorist since the beginning of time.
The petrochemical bisphenol-a, or BPA, causes precancerous tumors and urinary tract problems and made babies reach puberty early.
Every gas pump has a label on it that oil and gas causes cancer and a host of lethal medical problems.
Archeologicial digs show that ancient peoples living near tar pits got cancer.
When there is an oil spill, you are not allowed on the beach because most agencies classify oil as toxic.
A study of childhood leukemia in England mapped every child with the disease and found they all occurred in a circle, in the center of which was a gas station.
Living near a petrol station could quadruple the risk of childhood leukemia, research suggested today.
The study in France found a link between cases of acute leukemia among youngsters and how close they lived to a fuel station or a repair garage.
Research has already shown an association between adults’ occupational exposure to benzene, a hydrocarbon derived from petrol, and leukemia.
The latest study is published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The French Institute of Health and Medical Research based their findings on 280 cases of childhood leukemia and a comparison group of 285 children.
They were drawn from four hospitals in Nancy, Lille, Lyon and Paris, with almost two-thirds of the children with leukemia aged between two and six.
The team found no clear link between the mother’s occupation during pregnancy or traffic levels around where they lived and the risk of child leukemia.
They also saw no link between leukemia and living near manufacturers using materials such as aluminum or plastic.
But a child whose home was near a garage was four times more likely to develop leukemia than a child whose home was not.
The risk appeared to be even greater for acute non-lymphoblastic leukemia, which was seven times more common among children living close to a petrol station or garage. The longer a child had lived there, the higher their risk of leukemia appeared to be.
There are 6,600 cases of leukemia a year in Britain. Although it is the most common form of childhood cancer, it affects three times as many adults as children.
The authors admit the findings could be due to chance. “But the strength of the association and the duration of the trend are arguments for a causal association.”
Alberta’s oil sands are one of the world’s biggest deposits of oil, but the cost of extracting that oil may be the health of the people living around them. High levels of toxic chemicals and carcinogens have been found in the water, soil, and fish downstream of the oil sands. The local health authority of Fort Chipewyan, Alberta commissioned the study in response to locals’ claims that the oil extraction projects upstream were damaging the health of citizens. Petrochemicals and their byproducts, such as dioxin, are known to cause an array of serious health problems, including cancers and endocrine disruption.Total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) is a term used to describe a large family of several hundred chemical compounds that originally come from crude oil. Crude oil is used to make petroleum products, which can contaminate the environment. Because there are so many different chemicals in crude oil and in other petroleum products, it is not practical to measure each one separately. However, it is useful to measure the total amount of TPH at a site.TPH is a mixture of chemicals, but they are all made mainly from hydrogen and carbon, called hydrocarbons. Scientists divide TPH into groups of petroleum hydrocarbons that act alike in soil or water. These groups are called petroleum hydrocarbon fractions. Each fraction contains many individual chemicals.
Some chemicals that may be found in TPH are hexane, jet fuels, mineral oils, benzene, toluene, xylenes, naphthalene, and fluorene, as well as other petroleum products and gasoline components. However, it is likely that samples of TPH will contain only some, or a mixture, of these chemicals. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has determined that one TPH compound (benzene) is carcinogenic to humans. IARC has determined that other TPH compounds (benzo[a]pyrene and gasoline) are carcinogenic to humans.
Benzene causes leukemia. Benzene as a cause of leukemia had documented since 1928 (1 p. 7-9). In 1948, the American Petroleum Institute officially reported a link between this solvent used in many of their industries used and cases of leukemia in their workers. Their findings concluded that the only safe level of benzene exposure is no exposure at all (2).
The largest breast cancer incidents are in Marin County, California which is tied to the air, water and ecosphere of the Chevron Oil refinery right next door.
The oil industries spend tens of millions of dollars on fake pundits and disinformation to make sure the above information is never known by the public. Cure Cancer: Stop oil. It is a national security need in more ways than one.
Crude Oil…
Most everyone is wary of petroleum prices and the populace of Belize is no exception. Unlike North America.
Some of us even don’t realize the importance of this information. What a pity.
AUpsn8 I bookmarked this link. Thank you for good job!
It is amazing the info that has been suppressed – and I do NOT mean by the oil companies as is normal “conspiracy theory” stuff.
After the ‘73 oil price shock New Zealand scientists were working on a modification of Fischer-Tropsch to convert natural gas to liquid fuels, but it was loudly opposed as being “Apartheid technology” and therefore tainted and totally unacceptable. South Africa was under oil embargos at that time, and was producing fuels through that same technology, and quite successfully too.
The very same folks who opposed this eco-friendly technology 35 years ago are now the leaders of the NZ Green Party.
Go figure.
Another thing – the make-up of gasoline varies a lot between countries. In South America you can wash your hands in it, no problem apart from drying out your skin. But here in NZ it causes nasty reactions due to the “aromatics” (benzene-ring) content.
Diesel was also renowned 40 years ago for causing excema – Caterpillar tractor seats were actually molded into the fuel-tank, so got lots of splashes when they were re-fuelled, and the operators sat in the stuff.