We started this millennium concerned
about Global Warming and how energy production and utilization was
aggravating it. Excessive CO2 emissions were being produced from using
fossil fuels and our planet was experiencing a greenhouse effect.
Among the many solutions, the development,
promotion and utilization of alternative, renewable and cleaner fuels topped
the list. More efficient combustion systems and raising awareness to use energy
wisely, conservatively and economically were also popular. During this period,
as if to make matters worse, the world experienced oil prices that peaked, for
the first time ever, to over U$150 per barrel in 2008.
Thus, old fuels were re-born and new technologies
were developed and deployed. They offered higher combustion efficiency, lower
CO2 emissions and minimum wastes. They were expensive but incentives in the
form of up-front financing and carbon credits came under the Clean
Development Mechanism (CDM) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC). Solar and wind power also became feasible, popular and
widespread because the CO2 emissions they prevented became carbon credits that
could be monetized and used to offset their costs.
The Research and Development of this website came
under that setting. The proponent studied biogas in the 1970’s but could not
justify its production costs. In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s,
the combined effects of incentives from CDM and Carbon Credits and
worries about rising fuel prices produced economic justifications that made
biogas production and utilization viable.
It also helped that biogas has
the combined characteristics of being:
·
an easy-to-produce
& eco-friendly alternative to oil-based fuels;
·
a fuel that prevents a
potent greenhouse gas (GHG) from escaping into the atmosphere; (When used as a fuel, burned or flared
efficiently, biogas is eligible for huge amounts carbon credits because it is a
potent GHG. One (1) ton of biogas that does not escape into the atmosphere by
being burned efficiently is equivalent to 21 tons of CO2 that did not escape
into the atmoshere.) and,
·
a useful component
of waste water treatment systems that ensures pollution-free effluents.
This website covered other alternative and
renewable fuels like biodiesel and gasification.
Thereafter it turned into agricultural projects that were a biofuel of an interesting sort:
BioFertilizers or
Organic Fertilizers: BioFuels for plants
and soils.
Rainwater Harvesting:
Water is a biofuel for human, animal and plant
life.
Food Production: Food is a biofuel for nutrition and sustenance.
These comparisons are “extreme” but as our world
now faces severe and immediate problems relating to food production and water
supply, we hope you will appreciate our efforts to address these matters of
vital importance and current significance.
Information in this website is presented with the
use of many pictures to illustrate, portray and visualize ideas presented in
line with the maxim – a picture is worth a thousand words – to make our
presentations easily-understandable and more pleasing.
Seed funds to start and maintain this website
came from a cash award received by the proponent for winning in the Global 100 Eco-Tech Awards given during the 2005
Japan World EXPO with its environmental theme. The project was
nominated by ICETT (
The information presented in this website is the
result of careful research and actual tests where needed. There is no attempt
to mis-lead or mis-represent.
If there appear to be errors or mis-information,
we offer our apologies. We will be happy to correct these if you will write us
about them & provide pertinent published evidence.
Mabuhay at maraming salamat po!