Re: Did you see this?
- From: SimRacer <NOsimracer68@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:18:36 -0500
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:21:54 -0800, Nancy2 <nancy-dooley@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Nov 14, 10:43 am, SimRacer <NOsimrace...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:44:01 -0800, Nancy2 <nancy-doo...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
As reported in another newsgroup:
from the hollywood reporter
NASCAR cookin' with gas
By Kimberly Nordyke
NASCAR Digital Entertainment and production-distribution company
Creative Artists Entertainment Group are set to offer local TV
stations a new reality competition series that combines cooking and
racing for a fall 2008 launch in syndication.
The series, "NASCAR: Serving It Up," centers on a cooking competition
to find "the next great chef personality" and will showcase NASCAR and
its race events. It will feature a group of aspiring chefs preparing
specific recipes during competitions held at local races.
The weekly show is targeted to launch in September and consist of 40
half-hour episodes. A total of 35 winners from 35 episodes will be
whittled to nine semifinalists. The final two will face off in the
finale, which would air in September 2009.
"Serving It Up" is being offered for straight barter in broadcast
syndication. The companies will be looking for a cable partner as
well, said Sarah Nettinga, managing director of film, television and
entertainment at NASCAR.
I don't know if it's a real deal (as Wendy would say) or not, but
there you have it.
N.
No, didn't see *that* article on "cooking with gas", but I did see a
blurb on NASCAR going "green" on Jayski. They're talking about an
ethanol or E85 type of product in the future of the sport.
One of thie lines was something about how the fuel would burn in race
engines. Well, I'd say ok given a few tweaks, but you think fuel
mileage is an issue NOW? Wait until they run some E85 through one of
them basters and learn that it only gives you about 50%-60% of the
mileage that "gasoline" does.
I have a FlexFuel vehicle ('07 Tahoe) in my company's fleet, and use
E85 in it...nice not to patronize the gouging OPEC trillionaires no
more than I have to, but it does not give us anywhere near the mileage
that even regular grade gasoline does. Thankfully, I just bought the
one for an experiement, I won't be adding any more anytime soon. (And
thankfully, it can run on gasoline too...as backwards as that may
sound...) NOW, if I could setup a still and brew my own? That might
make a difference. The alcohol people here in NC say it is legal to
"homebrew" your own E85, up to 100 gallons a month, without worry of
arrest or taxation. Question is, what does it cost to make 85 gallons
of corn gas? (To then add 15 gallons of gasoline to, of course.)
It's my personal opinion, being a native of corn country, is that the
whole ethanol thing is just a stop-gap measure doomed to disappearing
altogether sometime in the not-so-distant future. But I don't have
any personal experience one way or the other, and no real solid basis
for my feeling. I just think if I were a venture capitalist or an
investor, I wouldn't look at ethanol to make my fortune in any
sustainable fashion.
N.
You may very well be right Nancy, but I hate what OPEC has done to
fuel prices, and yes, it is OPEC doing it. And with fuel cell tech
certinaly decades a way at best, isn't a stop-gap or interim product
better than nothing?
And isn't the idea of putting our corn and soybean growers (for
soy-diesel - big here in the tobacco depleted state of NC) back to
work also a better idea than the loss of all the this country's family
farmlands to big business and commercial development? (From me no
less, a *rich* (lol) person who got that way off developing real
estate myself...)
I mean, I admit it is becoming a lesser-of-the-evils kind of thing,
but we just need to get off our duffs and do SOMETHING. The cost of
energy in this country is at the base of a lot of the current economic
woes, the "housing crunch" included when people have to decide between
the gas to get to and from work and making their mortgage and child
care payments every month. And ethanol (or something like it) is going
to be better than solar until its cost can come down or wind, since
not everywhere in the states has enough consistent wind force to
actually make it a viable, workable solution.
Those are my thoughts anyway. I am trying to "green up" as much as
possible, within reason anywho. We just ordered a geothermal heat pump
system for the new log home we're building up in the mountains...low E
argon filled windows, super-insulation (from both denim and recycled
newspapers), and we're building entirely from standing-dead trees this
time - no trees will be killed for us to build this one beyond any
interior stud framing. We're even giong with a tankless water heater
this go round. We'd like to add solar later, toward the time we
actually "retire" retire and move up there full time, and take
ourselves completely off the grid minus some broadband equipment. But
the solar equipment is just WAY TOO cost prohibitive at the moment for
a "2nd" home. The blueprints say 3975 Sf. and a solar system to run
that much home was going to be upwards of $100k. WOW! :-O
.
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