Research

Today I went to the Denver Public Library and got three books on renewable energy. One of them had a specific lean towards Brazilian policies and use of ethanol as a renewable. I will look over these for biological and environmental information on our topic.

And the horses are off...

We met to begin our research today. The topic has been refined from biofuels in general down to sugarcane use in Brazil. We found lots of information on the biological processes involved in obtaining remaining energy from dead plant cells, but still need to find out more info about the environmental impacts.

Mo Progress

We met for three hours wednesday to work on our project. We have ordered the wicks that we will be using as well as a thermometer to measure the change in temperature which thus corresponds to the maximum power output of the fuels. We will test vegetable oil and our version of biofuel. We decided against doing waste vegetabl oil (i.e. after it had been used to cook). We will have to wait for materials to arive, but should have the experiment conducted in a couple of weeks. So long for now.