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Although many people are going to great lengths to conserve energy and recycle their trash at home, the same people are not always as "green-conscious" in the workplace. Businesses are one of the biggest sources of trash, and energy waste.

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Monitoring energy consumption is vitally important for businesses that want to cut their costs and environmental impact by saving energy. This article gives an introduction to energy monitoring, and explains why it is so important for business energy management.

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I'm quite sure that practically every single day you arrive and park your car or truck in front of the gas pump on your way to work you can't help wishing gas prices were lower. Recently with the war turmoil around the world, especially in the oil producing countries the oil prices are going to the roof and so are the gas and diesel prices. There seems to be no end to the escalation of oil based energetic prices and there is no wallet that can handle this situation easily.

This is one of those times when people start asking for something new that can help with the situation, something even revolutionary that can give a solution to this expensive fuels situation.

For some years now many researchers have been calling for world's attention to be paid on organic derivatives that can work as substitutes for oil derived fuels. These days the most widely known fuel derived from organic waste is what is called Biodiesel. A fuel that promises to be a revolutionary energetic for our trucks and cars and that is already being commercialized in countries like Germany where you can find it alongside with the regular fuels we are used to find at our gas stations. Besides the much lower price of it compared to regular diesel, other great advantages of it is that it's biodegradable and also non-toxic. Just as an example, it typically produces about 60% less carbon dioxide emissions than the regular oil based fuels.

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Tested Diesel Cetane Ratings Reach 63.6 in Comparison to the Norm of 51 With High Calorific Value Exceeding the European EN590 Standard

Global Energy (OTCBB:GEYI - News), an initiator of alternative energy projects focusing on the processing of organic solid and many kinds of hydro carbon wastes into usable alternative fuels, today reported on a number of tests on the diesel produced by the Company’s technology and plants supplier, AlphaKat GMBH, in Germany.

The first tests were conducted by the Institute for Neuwertwirtschaft GMBH (“IFN”) from a feed stock of household waste from the city of Liepzig on approximately 130 liters of synthetic diesel that were produced through the AlphaKat KDV process. The study concluded “this product can be used in CHP’s (combined heat and power plants). For use in the diesel engine area, which is subject to EN590 (The European Standard for Diesel for Vehicles), sulfur content and stabilization need to be adjusted for full scale industry plants. The refuse contained a maximum of 46% hydrocarbons from which the demonstration plant produced diesel from 41%, representing a conversion efficiency of 89%.”

ERRSA Energietechnic, a reputable test and regulation institute in Germany from Zitau, separately concluded, based on a test run on a 200KW diesel engine that the produced diesel held approximately 12,000 Kcal per kilogram compared to the EN590 standard of approximately 10,000 Kcal per kilogram. The Cetane rating 63.6 compared with the standard EN590. In summary, “the tested diesel is special fuel that could provide an alternative to vegetable oil with CPH and to fossil diesel fuel for vehicles. The high calorific value of the diesel would lead to reduction in the diesel engine’s fuel consumption and therefore reduction of emissions and logistics costs.”

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