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Czech BBQ will save the world.

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UPDATED: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 15:12
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013 12:38 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


( Well, Texas mesquite, via the Czech Republic, that is. )

From the ' You Can't Make This Stuff Up ' File...


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A Czech Republic company says it has found an abundant, long-term source of energy in South Texas to help European utilities produce electricity.
The energy source has nothing to do with the Eagle Ford Shale.

The source is the hated mesquite wood.

“We looked all over the world for a stable and big source of biomass. We found the source in Texas,” Zdenek Mayer said. He's business director and CEO for GreenHeart Energy LLC, the Texas division of GreenHeart Energy, based in Duchcov, Czech Republic.

GreenHeart Energy LLC has selected San Antonio for its Texas company's headquarters — for legal, banking and accounting purposes — but most of its activities will occur near and in Corpus Christi.

GreenHeart Energy, founded in 2008, plans to harvest mesquite in South Texas, chip the wood, and ship it from Corpus Christi in bulk to a German port. Once the chips are in Europe, electricity utilities will burn them to create turbine-turning steam.

Because burning mesquite chips produces less pollution than the coal the utilities have been burning, the utilities can sell some of their pollution permits back to their governments.

Mayer listed Poland as the country with the biggest potential for mesquite chips.=

Utilities in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Holland, Italy, Sweden, Norway and Denmark also are likely customers, Mayer said.

Mesquite wood has a low moisture content and an energy level, when burned, of somewhere between that of brown and black coal, Mayer said.


Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/Europe-energy-found-in-Co
rpus-4468007.php#ixzz2RzKTnJuD






So, to keep from burning evil coal, and bypassing natural gas or nuclear power, a company has figured out that chipping tons of mesquite wood in Texas, putting it on huge cargo ships, shipping it across the ocean, to a port in Germany, and then off to be burned in power plants around Europe is a perfect solution to help keeping down carbon emissions.

So it seems that the answer to our 21st century problems is returning to the Middle Ages.

Hope they don't start burning witches again. But if they do, at least they'll smell of a good old fashion Texas BBQ!

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013 3:12 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Beats the way we used to get rid of it back in the 70s. Back then, it was the custom to spray miles and miles and miles of mesquite with 2, 4, 5T (one of the active ingredients in Agent Orange), mixed with diesel fuel so it would stick to the trees.

It didn't kill just the mesquite - it killed every plant in the area. After spraying, you'd go back a few weeks later and see thousands of acres of black, dead brush.

Of course, they'd generally chop that up and sell it for firewood, or for smoking meat. Mmmmm-MMM! You can almost taste the dioxins!



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