Green Options

Water conservation has always been a hot button for Aid Organizations and Environmentalist. With a world wide lack of drinking water, and more third world countries getting involved in the growing bio-economy, I think it’s fair to look behind the curtain of the fuel movement that calls itself “Green.”

The United States is headed towards being the single largest biodiesel consumer in the world, accounting for about 19% of the market by 2012.

Osage BioEnergy announced that it will break ground next month on its Appomattox Bio Energy plant, a 65 Mgy (Million Gallons per Year) barley ethanol plant that will be the largest in the US.

Of all the solutions to climate change, dwindling resources and a degraded natural environment, one consistently seems to have all the appeal of a dirty word.

It’s the “c” word. As in “conservation.”

Now, I appreciate all the diligent researchers and inventors working so hard to create the ultimate “green” bullet, whether it’s a never-exhausting source of clean energy, cheap and printable solar panels you can put anywhere, energy from garbage or carbon-dioxide-based plastics. But unless one of these near-magic solutions can enter the mass market in the next couple of years, we’re not going to make an appreciable dent in our resource and energy demands before the proverbial dirty word starts hitting the fan.