Biodiesel & Twitter
I've recently gotten the Twitter bug. There was a time - a mere two weeks ago, in fact - that I vowed publicly NEVER to stoop to twittering. However, having had one too many conversations with people who are supposed to be supporting alternative energy and yet remain substantially misinformed about the benefits of biodiesel, I awoke early one morning with a mission to join the digital hordes and leverage my own inherent A.D.D. in the A.D.D-friendly "Tweet Format". My goal: to reach out to people who know about the "alternatives" but have missed the details as they pertain to biodiesel. For instance, did you know:
- Diesel fumes are 10x more carcinogenic than all other airborne pollutants COMBINED! Let's eradicate them.
- The fastest growing economies in the world are massively penetrated by diesel engines (India and China). They don't want those GHG emissions, and neither do we.
- Biodiesel is renewable and carries a substantial net energy benefit of 3.5:1 - If you use grease, which we like to call RVO(recycled vegetable oil) - we believe the benefit exceeds 10:1
- Biodiesel from RVO is less expensive than diesel. It has achieved "petroleum parity", something that no other alternative fuel has accomplished, to date.
The other day, one of my colleagues was talking to the Sustainability Coordinator of a well-known, East Coast school, and she basically recited an argument against biodiesel that confused biodiesel and ethanol. If your job is to understand sustainable models, you need to understand the difference between corn-based ethanol and RVO-based biodiesel!
If it's better than its oil-based counterpart; if it's turning a waste product into a fuel product; if that fuel product is government certified; if that product reduces GHG emissions by up to 75% and if it costs less than oil, why aren't more people enthusiastically using and supporting it? I think there's an informational vacuum that no large, well financed entity is focused on filling. So we are going to have to do it.
If you, too, have succumbed to Twitter, check me out at http://twitter.com/springboardB and feel free to add to the educational information stream(s)
