I sufferd lack of oxygen these days!
In any place of outdoor I feel I'm hard to breathe since lacking of oxygen. I already think that my brain doesn't work well than ever.
So, I remind that CO2 is heavy than O2, maybe a lot of CO2 in the air are gathered in the low of air, it means on the ground. In worse, upper sea surface by melting ice since global warming sends air with a lot of gathered CO2 from sea because usually sea surface is under the ground.
Well, usually it seems that under 0.5% of CO2 doesn't harm human, but it's another story that being in the air with a lot of CO2 every moment. There aren't time to rest with lower CO2 for us!

Global warming? It's NOT important! Our brain are under the threat of CO2!

Today I got up with numbness in a limb since lack of oxygen. Well, I remind that I felt that hard to breath in autumn last year. Perhaps concentrated air(CO2) by cool condition harms our body.

Possibly upper sea surface since melting ice during summer sends more CO2 to ground. Glaciating in northan sea may reduce CO2 in ground in winter, but it couldn't keep so long. It will be worse next year.

I feel headache by lack of oxygen since shutting a window during for a while. I can only open a window though it is cool autumn. What should I do while sleeping?

I bought oxygen concentrator on mail order. It will arrive tomorrow.

I was thinking how do we take CO2 to reduce. Of course biofuel is the trump against increasing CO2. Though we don't have enough resource to make biofuel for cars, we could take another way of research to use more biofuel for cars.
We have already biofuel from algae for airplane, but of course it can't use for car.
But it needs more spending a great deal of time to seek biofuel fitting car-engine. I guess we can make car-engine fitting mass-product biofuels that already discovered from algae soon.

After I use oxygen concentrator, I feel lack of oxygen more during I'm going out without oxygen concentrator, but my brain is working well than before.
Well, I think increasing CO2 prevents capability of our brain.

It is cloudy today, so I feel stifling more since plants don't photosynthesize well.

It's not good to write down by English.

When typhoon coming, I feel lacking oxygen very much.

I conceived of a plan to reduce CO2 in the air. We could bury biofuel under ground. It could make earthquake if a lot of biofuel are buried, so we may bury under the sea that is far from the ground. But it doesn't require biofuel that fits specification.

I can read and write Japanese like ever, of course, but I'm tend to be tired when reading Japanese for this Autumn.

http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2627

Is the 100% biodiesel can use for present engine? I see a hope on it to reduce CO2 in the air. If many cars especially in Europe use a 100% biodiesel, CO2 will reduce rapidly in the air.

I studied how many times biofuels do we have to make to be substituted from petroleum.
It needs about 50 times of present amount of production.

...(´･ω･`)

Could we do it?

It's cold in night these days, but an window is still opened a little.

The reports of Algae Biomass Summit in Seattle.
http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2899
http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2900
http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2901

Startup Turns CO2 Into Fuel
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/10/california-comp.html

Brother....drink some oxygen...or maybe go to an oxygen bar on the west coast. Perhaps you could open one. Now I feel you pain on the CO2 thing. What about all the people who burn wood and alt fuel. What about all the countries that burn trash, wood, and alt fuel...and then there is a thing called a community that still accepts smoking like....casino's...how rude...

Funny how all that flipped around in so few years.

So at any rate I like your tirerate. The fact is however is that alt fuels are not a solution. They may be cheaper to purchase at some point but they do not offer better fuel economy.

The same is for wind power. The maintenance involved vs the actual output is not really that good and creates a greater burdon on the global comunity. The only proven free sourse of energy at this poin in time is Hydro Electric power and Nuclear Power plants...but wait we can't build those because they are dangerouse.

So at any rate I think the complete solution if we try and do electric cars is to try and figure out how to re-envent electric energy thithin our globe and near space at a free price...

Wait I had an appifany...it is all free like Gold, Silver...or anyother monitary value like a diamond. Hmm human greed.

Turn the CO2 into a hydrogen car.

You know what a clutch is....I assume. Then think of that when you design a Hydro power unit that takes advantage of the sea with tidal forces.....freeeeebe

Sorry man I rambled. Did you know that C should be around 2 with the reference that H is about -4

Thanks Bug17, I bought oxygen generator. It's about 1500 doller. It's pretty good.

eGo's e-Helio Scooter Gains Traction in South Africa
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/09/egos-e-helio-sc.html

Electric bikes/scooters aren't just for the guilt-ridden gas-guzzlers of North America. As part of a new green initiative for South Africa campaign, the eGo scooter company is releasing the e-Helio Cycle M37, the country's first zero-emissions electric bike.

Like the eGo Cycle 2 SE scooter available in the US, the E-Helio aims to keep carbon emission numbers down to zero by keeping it charged with a battery. What's interesting about it is that it keeps a similar top speed (25MPH), charging time cycle (6 hours for a full 'tank'), and range per charge than many of the heavier, more expensive e-motorbike options.

Rainforest Fungus Naturally Synthesizes Diesel
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/rainforest-fung.html

Car engine burn fuel when be a lot of CO2, it occurs imperfect combustion. It makes a lot of CO1. Just a bit CO1 suffers us. I guess it's the reason of that hard to breath.
In short term, only electric car and electric bike can solve this problem. Of course in long term, we must reduce CO2.

All-Electric Mini E Priced at $850/Month
http://www.nextautos.com/all-electric-mini-e-priced-850month

Japan's Goverment will help up to buy electric car for 1 million JPY(10 thousand doller.) Why not US also helps.
Japan's former Prime Minister Fukuda decided that tax for fuel except biofuel raised because reduce emission CO2. I'm surprised that US hasn't took such policy for energy security yet.

The new Mini borrows a drive system from a high-performance electric sports car.
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21688/?a=f

Good job, but, uh, Mitsubishi already delivered their customers electric vehicles named iMiEV to gather information, and they look to sell electric vehicles to consumer in 2009. Nissan, Fuji, GM look to sell EV 2010 too.

The iMiEV Is a Sweet EV With a Lousy Name
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/11/the-imiev-is-a.html

窓フィルムでエコ効果あり　京都府庁　２月から熱遮断対策
（Kyoto government office was put thermal insulation tape into their windows from Feb. They reduced CO2 emissions)

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20081202-00000029-kyt-l26 (Japanese)
The thermal insulation on the window in Kyoto gobernment office reduced carbon dioxide emissions and fee for supply. They make keep air temperature by A/C in the room, then, they keep cool in summer and warm in winter. The cost for these films are about 16 million yen, but electric bill was saved 1.9 million yen just while February and March. They expect that they'll be able to earn back the cost soon.

Japan Moves to Become Electric Vehicle Testing Ground
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/12/japan-becomes-a.html

Nobel-Winning Physicist Rumored to Be Obama's Pick for Energy Secretary
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/stevechu.html

Electric Bike Sales Take Off in America
http://www.evworld.com/news.cfm?newsid=19849

Indian-made electric car REVA to roll into Israel shortly
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1045125.html

Israel Pilots Electric Car Recharging Network
http://www.evworld.com/news.cfm?newsid=19870

I guess the reason of the policy is for energy security to Israel, especially against Middle East.
But I think any reason is welcome to promote EV.

Lingle's plan on electric vehicle takes new turn
http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=9494619

DOWNTOWN HONOLULU (KHNL) - Another announcement from the Governor on her mission to reduce Hawaii's carbon footprint.

It comes just a week after she unveiled plans for an electric car network. Last week, a company pledged to build the infrastructure needed for electric cars to run.

This announcement involves bringing a fleet of electric vehicles to Hawaii roads.

Governor Linda Lingle's plan to steer Hawaii away from its dependence on oil takes a new turn. This is a model of the electric car fleet coming to Maui County.



"It does everything you expect a vehicle to do except it doesn't pollute," said Dan Elliott, Phoenix Motorcars CEO.

In a deal with Maui Electric, car maker Phoenix Motorcars signs on a plan to test the vehicles, using MECO's grid to power them up. The goal is to tap into unused clean energy.

"Some renewable sources continue to make energy overnight while we're sleeping," said Maui Electric president Ed Reinhardt.

The vehicles go zero to sixty in less than ten seconds, run 130 miles on a single charge. And reach up to 90 miles per hour.

Average price tag is $50,000, with incentives and mandates attached.

"Nobody likes to hear about mandates. They didn't like it on the solar water heating bill on the houses," said Governor Lingle. "There were some people who felt you shouldn't mandate, you should just let the market decide. Well, this was the same argument that was made by the big three automakers."

MECO will test drive 20 to 30 of these cars starting next year for six months.

The goal is to bring 2500 of them to Hawaii by the end of 2009.

Then expand the fleet to 10,000 cars by 2010. This is all part of the Governor's list of to-do's under the Hawaii clean energy initiative.

Which outlines her vision for Hawaii to use 70% clean energy by 2030.

If Big 3 will make the car by Phoenix Motorcars, deep depression will fade away, hehe.

Dutch Club to Recycle Dancers' Energy
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,570869,00.html

"When you dance, you generate energy by the shaking of the ground," Stef van Dongen, director of environmental innovation lab Enviu, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "What we do, very simply, is to capture the movement of dancing people and transform it into energy."

The club will be among the first in the world to give back some of what dancers leave on the floor -- and it is part of a larger effort by Enviu subsidiary Sustainable Dance Club (SDC) to introduce environmental technology to an industry that has traditionally been a voracious consumer of electricity. Your average nightclub swallows up 150 times the amount of power normal households do. Club Watt plans to use 30 percent less.

If electric vehicle have the power generation system in their suspension spring, EV could run far more.

Origin automates algae system
http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=3094

California-based OriginOil Inc. has successfully automated its algae cultivation and oil extraction system, allowing it to grow algae to extract the oil for biodiesel production.

The design of the Helix BioReactor utilizes low-energy lights arranged in a helix pattern and a rotating vertical shaft design, which allows algae culture to replicate exponentially within a smaller installation footprint. Automation of this system is a key step towards continuous algae production, allowing greater control of the growth environment and efficient, low-cost industrial algae production.

The automation will provide control over all stages of monitoring, solenoid operation, nutrient injection and carbon dioxide delivery at the micron level. Nutrient and carbon dioxide delivery are timed precisely to the pH algorithms to return micron-mixed fluid to the bioreactor. Through programming of certain key metrics, such as pH, oxidation-reduction potential and temperature, the system is capable of not only monitoring but also controlling flow and timing of events in the algae growth cycle, which is crucial to controlling batch health in continuous algae production.

“We’re aiming for a short window of explosive growth,” explained Riggs Eckelberry, founder and chief executive officer of OriginOil. The system would adjust the various parameters to manage a daily algae bloom, from which 90 percent of the algae would be harvested with 10 percent retained for the next day’s bloom.

Algae is expected for most high-productivity feedstock for biofuel because algae glow very fast and they don't use land, especially marine algae can use boundless sea surface.
We can make biofuel from algae already, but it would be a little expensive. I hope this technology will make biofuel for reasonable in market.

Japan's Goverment will help up to buy electric car for 1 million JPY(10 thousand doller.) Why not US also helps..
Because we are too busy bailing out the auto companies to help the average Joe. besides I have seen the electric mini cars they have out there.... they dont even look like they are worth 10k... or is the government in Japan PAYING people to drive them? If thats the case I say sign me up! i'll drive some little matchbox looking car,and not pay for anymore gas for 10k.

Say to US goverment.:cool:
Or, you could buy electric bike. Many American bought them already. I think I posted the article about electric bike here. American people see them as cool, that means anti global warming.

IRS issues guidance on biodiesel tax incentives
http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=3099

Bike-Powered Christmas Tree In Barcelona
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/bike-powered-ch.html

The scheme is also something of a publicity stunt for Bicing, the cheap point-to-point bike service we covered early last year.

Storing the Breeze: New Battery Might Make Wind Power More Reliable
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=storing-the-breeze-new-battery-might-make-wind-power-reliable

Winter winds howl off the Dakota prairie through Minnesota, turning the 1,100 megawatts worth of wind turbines in Xcel Energy's system in that state. By 2020, the utility expects to more than triple that amount in a bid to avoid more polluting energy sources. But the wind doesn't always blow and, even worse, it often blows strongest when people aren't using much electricity, like late at night.

So Xcel Energy, Inc., has become one of the first utilities in the U.S. to install a giant battery system in an attempt to store some of that wind power for later. "Energy storage might help us get to the point where we can integrate wind better," says Frank Novachek, director of corporate planning for the Minneapolis-based utility with customers in Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, the Dakotas, Oklahoma, Texas and Wisconsin. "The overall cost of electricity might be lower by using energy storage."

The energy storage in question—a series of sodium–sulfur batteries from Japan's NGK Insulators, Ltd.—can store roughly seven megawatt-hours of power, meaning the 20 batteries are capable of delivering roughly one megawatt of electricity almost instantaneously, enough to power 500 average American homes for seven hours. "Over 100 megawatts of this technology [is] deployed throughout the world," Novachek says. The batteries "store wind at night and they contract with their utility to put out a straight line output from that wind farm every day."

Secretive start-up wins key patent for a battery alternative
http://www.plentymag.com/blogs/edge/2008/12/secretive_startup_wins_key_pat.php

EEStor, an energy storage company, has kept electric vehicle enthusiasts on their toes with claims that it can build a very dense ultracapacitor, a potentially disruptive technology that could beat out conventional chemical batteries in many applications. But EEStor has been famously silent about the details of its device, leading some technology prognosticators and experts to doubt the product's existence. Last week, however, the low-profile company was awarded a patent for its methods, and with the patent came some juicy details.

According to the patent application (pdf), the energy storage unit can hold at least 52 kilowatt-hours of electrical energy, weighs about 282 pounds, and recharges in 6 minutes or less. By comparison, a lithium-ion battery storing the same amount of energy weighs more than double that and recharges in 6 hours.