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Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century
International Institute for Ecological A
November 2007
On Sale: November 1, 2007
640 pages ISBN: 0979043778 EAN: 9780979043772 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
Alcohol Can Be a Gas! is the only comprehensive book ever
written on alcohol fuel production and use for home and
farm. Until now, it has been very difficult for farmers,
contractors, alternative energy aficionados, those concerned
about Peak Oil, and small-scale entrepreneurs to obtain
good, accurate information on producing alcohol, or on
converting vehicles to run on alcohol fuel. And with all the
conflicting news stories about ethanol, the public finds it
difficult to sort fact from fiction. This text, which has
been reviewed by scientists around the world, is the
definitive reference work on alcohol fuel. Alcohol Can Be A Gas! contains 640 8-1/2 by 11 pages, with
514 charts, photos, and illustrations to reinforce the
information-dense text. The book is geared for the
nonscientific reader, but its 473 endnotes provide the
technical foundation behind the accessible prose. A 700-word
glossary and a 6300-entry index extend the book's usefulness. This book is the distilled essence of the most pertinent
information ever assembled in one place on alcohol fuel, the
technology that can help us finally become producers of
almost limitless energy, instead of extractors of finite
resources. How we produce our energy from here on out will
determine how we govern ourselves and how we relate to
nature and the environment; it will also create a sea change
in where wealth concentrates. It will determine if the
future is ruled by a small number of armed dictatorships
backed by military and industrial interests (a cabal author
David Blume likes to refer to as MegaOilron or the
Oilygarchy), or if energy, and therefore power, is held by a
diffusion of democratic entities, based on their ingenuity
and ability to gather a portion of their daily solar income. As Blume writes in the Introduction to Alcohol Can Be a
Gas!: "Various prospective publishers argued that putting
all of this material into one large volume might scare off
readers who just want a recipe book of how to make alcohol.
They said, 'All this history and politics is fascinating,
but aren't you afraid that including it in your how-to book
would scare away some buyers?' 'Put it in a separate
publication,' their marketing experts said. But in the final
analysis, I decided that this book should be a complete tool
kit to revolutionize our transportation energy system,
combining a broad, sweeping vision with intricate detail. "I spent four years working on this book with a small team
of researchers. I traveled all over the United States in
search of the most up-to-date information. In frozen South
Dakota, I talked to Orrie Swayze and his farmer and VFW
buddies who are taking on the oil companies, and to alcohol
combustion engineer and alcohol aviation expert, Jim
Behnken. I went to Decatur, Illinois, to see the largest
alcohol plant in the U.S., Archer Daniels Midland's
200-million-gallon-per-year plant. My travels also took me
to Brazil to document the world's largest alcohol fuel program. "It took over 25 years to finally get this book to you. It
represents the confidence of almost 30 people who
collectively loaned more than $250,000 to see this project
through. It's the most comprehensive book ever written about
alcohol fuel. Its production has been a massive effort that
has depended on the cooperation of hundreds of people who
contributed both their knowledge and, more importantly,
their experiences."
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