The Department of Energy (DOE) announced that the biofuel law will push through despite questions raised by oil companies with regards to bioethanol being corrosive to gasoline vehicles.

Earlier this week, Petron CEO & Chairman, Ramon S. Ang raised an alarm that without proper guidelines in the processing, bioethanol mixed into the fuel could have water in them which could lead to corrosion of the fuel system and the subsequent blame would fall on the oil retailers. This necessitated the DOE to call a stakeholders meeting.
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Hedcor Inc, a subsidiary of Aboitiz Power Corp, has announced plans to put up a total of 120 MW of hydro electric energy power plants in the region of Benguet. The 120 MW energy will be milked from 4 proposed separate hydro electric power plant complexes

They are already conducting feasibility studies in the area and expect to start permit application within 2 years time. Add another two years to that timeframe to construct the plant and you would get the theoretical time line for their plants to begin operations.
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Here’s an interesting article at Motoring Today’s column pointing out that E10 (fuel with 10% ethanol mixture) is not safe for use with carbureted vehicles since the ethyl alcohol can corrode the aluminum parts of the carburetor.

I guess the best answer to this question, on whether you car is E10 ready, is to ask the manufacturer. Its only recently that the Biofuels Law of the Philippines was passed mandating gasoline retailers to sell at the pumps biofuel mixed fuels so we can’t really tell whether the cars are indeed ethanol ready. Considering that making a car ethanol ready carries a cost with it that the car manufacturers could have done without since ethanol fuel was not an option at the pumps at that time.
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I’ve always admired Google for being serious in reducing their energy consumption, specifically in their data centers. Which we could say is the life blood of their business because it houses the data and algorithms of their search and money making online applications.

One special data center to take note of is the one located in Belgium. That’s because it operates on natural cooling alone due to the natural cool climate of Belgium.
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Google has announced that they will be using goats to mow the lawn in their sprawling campus, seriously!

According to their blog, about 200 goats will arrive at their campus and will spend about a week there eating their way through. In order to help corral them, a border collie will be used. They are calling this a low carbon approach because there won’t be any gasoline and noisy lawn mowers. An added benefit to this endeavor is that the goats will be fertilizing as they go along through their week long buffet.

I have to say its a great idea. Funny, but otherwise a great idea.

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I found this in youtube a few days ago, how to get up from bed and be ready for work in only 5 minutes. Of course this is possible to do if you have no plans of taking a bath in the morning.
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