Home Power Magazine Tracks a Fast-Growing Movement, ACORE's Bill Holmberg Reports on Biofuels

July 27, 2006 | 4 Comments

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Peterborough, NH [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] The home-based renewable energy movement has matured dramatically in recent years. Once a tiny segment of the energy mix with counterculture associations, it has become a serious player in the industry. Home Power magazine -- with its hands-on editorial approach to products, systems and trends -- has chronicled self-sustaining households for the past 20 years. In this week's edition of Inside Renewable Energy, we'll talk with Home Power CEO and Technical Editor Joe Schwartz about the magazine's changing readership and about a new and widespread appreciation for home-based systems.

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Bill Holmberg is the resident biofuels expert at the American Council On Renewable Energy. He's also a former U.S. Marine who has dedicated much of his professional life to furthering the cause of renewable energy. In this week's podcast, Mr. Holmberg discusses the present viability and the future marketability of biofuels in the U.S.

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jimmiller5417

July 28, 2006

Does anyone know what bank or institution is willing to finance purchase of a home brew biodiesel system?
Jim Miller
jimmiller5417@yahoo.com

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allan-sindelar-20506

July 29, 2006

Jim,
Take a look at the Permaculture Credit Union in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The PCU exists to be a funding source and financial resource for people involved in real sustainability. It's five years old and is a success story in its own right. Check our www.pcuonline.org or call 505 954-3479.

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dmitry-erikalov-33955

August 2, 2006

What about the (I think sensational) news that "Spanish firm claims it can make oil from plankton"
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20060720/sc_nm/energy_spain_plankton_dc_1

... Bio Fuel Systems said its new fuel would reduce CO2, was free of other contaminants like sulphur dioxide and would be cheaper than fossil oil is now...

is this true?

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william-bunter-51105

August 20, 2006

Why all the Western democracies are not investing every dime and dollar into renewable and alternative energy exploration beats the heck out of me:

Are we really so short sighted that we cannot see the the blackmail and graft which eminates from the oil producing nations against the West:

Lets get rid of the need for oil and explore every avenue to renewable and alternative energy.

If we have to use oil, let it be only oil the West produces itself, for itself within its own Western borders or through its own technology. The further we get away from internation oil cartels the safer we will be, but for goodness sake, please dont go down the nuclear road:

Once oil made us rich, now it will make us poor, the oil rich nations will see to that, you betcha:
William Bunter: New Zealand

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