Greener Agencies
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., wants federal agencies to show the way when it comes to energy efficiency. In an op-ed in The Hill today, she notes that her committee worked to include several measures affecting agencies in the energy bill that passed the Senate June 21. They would:
- Require lighting retrofits and increased energy efficiency in as many as 8,000 federal buildings, with a $100 million grant program for local governments to upgrade their own buildings.
- Establish a “Green Buildings” program for new and upgraded government buildings, using sustainable products, practices and materials.
- Authorize construction of a photovoltaic “solar wall” to generate electricity at Energy Department headquarters in Washington.
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If we really want to do something, how about requiring ALL government owned gasoline powered vehicles to run E85. And all government agencies that operate fueling stations, such as the Department of Defense, operate E85 fueling stations all all their installations. Not only will this reduce fuel consumption since E85 is only 15% gasoline, but it would also spur the fuel industry to build more E85 refineries.
Concerned Citizen Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 1:48 PMHave you researched how much fossil fuel is required to produce one gallon of E85--it's a wash.
Anonymous Posted Tuesday, July 3, 2007 9:19 AMAnonymous, you are goofy and wrong. There is an ethanol plant in NB that uses a closed loop technology. "closed-loop" technology consists of feeding cattle in an enclosed facility and continually washing the manure into sealed anaerobic digesters, which cooks it to produce methane gas that then powers the ethanol plant. The wet distiller's grain remaining from the ethanol production can be fed to the cattle, completing the loop. The Prime's plant will consist of up to 30,000 head of cattle and will make about 23 million gallons of ethanol a year, and the nearly odorless process also produces a high-quality fertilizer.
Hans N. Weiffenbach Posted Tuesday, July 3, 2007 1:57 PM